caretta caretta

1. 1.

   very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas

   Synonymsloggerheadloggerhead turtle

   Broadersea turtle

   Part ofCaretta

Questions about caretta caretta

What does caretta caretta mean?

caretta caretta means "very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas".

What is another word for caretta caretta?

Close synonyms include loggerhead, loggerhead turtle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is caretta caretta a common word?

caretta caretta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.