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nonturtle en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + turtle.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not of or relating to a turtle.
    • The butcher taped the lids on eight, one-quart plastic containers containing all the nonturtle blood he had, then carefully stacked them in a shopping bag and handed them to a woman at the cash register. 2010, Christopher Moore, Bite Me: A Love Story, page 192:
    • For nonmarine species divergence times are poorly estimated, and in two cases the estimates are made by assuming that they occurred at the same time as the divergence of nonturtle species in the same geographic localities. 1995, Simon Easteal, Chris Collet, David Betty, The mammalian molecular clock, page 151:
    • D. Histogram comparing sizes of turtle and nonturtle fossils from EAQ. 2007, Raymond R. Rogers, David A. Eberth, Anthony R. Fiorillo, Bonebeds: genesis, analysis, and paleobiological significance, page 348: