sea turtle

Questions about sea turtle

What does sea turtle mean?

sea turtle means "any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas".

What is another word for sea turtle?

Close synonyms include marine 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 sea turtle a common word?

sea 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.