river cooter

1. 1.

   large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico

   SynonymscooterPseudemys concinna

   Broaderturtle

   Part ofPseudemys

Questions about river cooter

What does river cooter mean?

river cooter means "large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico".

What is another word for river cooter?

Close synonyms include cooter, Pseudemys concinna. 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 river cooter a common word?

river cooter 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.