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snapping turtle
noun
- either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
snapping turtle
noun
- any large aggressive North American river turtle of the family Chelydridae, esp Chelydra serpentina ( common snapping turtle ), having powerful hooked jaws and a rough shell Also calledsnapper
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The hooks on the end of final strokes indicate a tenacious mind that holds on to ideas and opinions as tight as a snapping turtle.
H-tchoo-tc-knee, the Snapping Turtle; half-bred and well-educated man.
I never saw anything funnier than those steers and a huge snapping turtle.
Just ahead of us, under a blackberry bush, was a huge snapping-turtle.
Gilliam shone at cross-examination; he went at Tandy savagely, taking hold like a snapping turtle and hanging on like one.
Cope says that the Cretaceous of New Jersey alone affords twenty species, one of them a snapping turtle six feet in length.
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