mud turtle

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   bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America

   Broaderturtle

   Narrowermusk turtle

   Part ofKinosternon

Questions about mud turtle

What does mud turtle mean?

mud turtle means "bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America".

Is mud turtle a common word?

mud turtle 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.