chelonia mydas

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   large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup

   Synonymsgreen turtle

   Broadersea turtle

   Part ofChelonia

Questions about chelonia mydas

What does chelonia mydas mean?

chelonia mydas means "large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup".

What is another word for chelonia mydas?

Close synonyms include green 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 chelonia mydas a common word?

chelonia mydas 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.