soft-shelled turtle

What does soft-shelled turtle mean?

soft-shelled turtle means "voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin; can inflict painful bites".

What is another word for soft-shelled turtle?

Close synonyms include pancake 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 soft-shelled turtle a common word?

soft-shelled 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for soft-shelled turtle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.