terrapene ornata

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   primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico

   SynonymsWestern box turtle

   Broaderbox turtle

Questions about terrapene ornata

What does terrapene ornata mean?

terrapene ornata means "primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico".

What is another word for terrapene ornata?

Close synonyms include Western box 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 terrapene ornata a common word?

terrapene ornata 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.