musk turtle

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   small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor

   Synonymsstinkpot

   Broadermud turtle

   Part ofSternotherus

Questions about musk turtle

What does musk turtle mean?

musk turtle means "small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor".

What is another word for musk turtle?

Close synonyms include stinkpot. 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 musk turtle a common word?

musk 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.