red-bellied terrapin

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   freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell

   Synonymsred-bellied turtleredbellyPseudemys rubriventris

   Broaderturtle

   Part ofPseudemys

Questions about red-bellied terrapin

What does red-bellied terrapin mean?

red-bellied terrapin means "freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell".

What is another word for red-bellied terrapin?

Close synonyms include red-bellied turtle, redbelly, Pseudemys rubriventris. 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 red-bellied terrapin a common word?

red-bellied terrapin 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.