western box turtle

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   primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico

   SynonymsTerrapene ornata

   Broaderbox turtle

Questions about western box turtle

What does western box turtle mean?

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

What is another word for western box turtle?

Close synonyms include Terrapene ornata. 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 western box turtle a common word?

western box 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.