marine turtle

/məˌrin ˌtʌrdl/

Other forms: marine turtles

Definitions of marine turtle

1. noun

   any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas
   synonyms: sea turtle

   types:

   Chelonia mydas, green turtle

   large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup

   Caretta caretta, loggerhead, loggerhead turtle

   very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas

   ridley

   a marine turtle

   Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle

   pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell

   Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle

   wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle

   Atlantic ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, bastard ridley, bastard turtle

   grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America

   Lepidochelys olivacea, Pacific ridley, olive ridley

   olive-colored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans

   type of:

   turtle

   any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming