snapping turtle

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   large aggressive freshwater turtle with powerful jaws

   Broaderturtle

   Narrowercommon snapping turtlealligator snapping turtle

   Part ofChelydridae

Questions about snapping turtle

What does snapping turtle mean?

snapping turtle means "large aggressive freshwater turtle with powerful jaws".

Is snapping turtle a common word?

snapping 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.