mud turtle

American  

noun

1. any of several small, freshwater turtles of the family Kinosternidae, of North and South America, as the dark-brown Kinosternon subrubrum, of the U.S.

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mud turtle British  

noun

1. any of various small turtles of the genus Kinosternon and related genera that inhabit muddy rivers in North and Central America: family Kinosternidae

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Etymology

Origin of mud turtle

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

Example Sentences

According to court documents, Van Nostrand and others established a network of “collectors” who searched the Florida wilds for certain freshwater turtle specimens, including the three-stripe mud turtle, from April 2017 through April 2019.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2022

Wiemer is now enough of a devotee that he’s tried to get New York state to put Sasquatch on its list of endangered species, alongside the mud turtle, the golden eagle and the cougar.

From Washington Times • Oct. 24, 2015

Wiemer is now enough of a devotee that he's tried to get New York state to put Sasquatch on its list of endangered species, alongside the mud turtle, the golden eagle and the cougar.

From US News • Oct. 24, 2015

“I found a mud turtle on the riverbank, up by the asphalt road,” she told me.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

Once he found a mud turtle which he tossed into the boat for Bunny.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Nosworthy, Florence England