(n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
(n.) The box tortoise.
Example Sentences:
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(2) But he is better known as the actor who played the mechanic Cooter in the 1980s hit television show The Dukes of Hazzard .
Terrapin
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the superficial fibres in both tortoise and terrapin muscles were multiply innervated, but end-plates were focal rather than diffuse.6.
(2) Photograph: PR We followed her advice, walking down to the stream in search of terrapins and otters, or through clusters of cork oak trees, their branches hairy with lichen like the ancient trees of a fairytale forest.
(3) Gastrotomy is even feasible on terrapins through a partial detachment of the stomach from the liver, enabling a sufficient presentation of the stomach.
(4) Two terrapins excreted the organism throughout a nine month observation period.
(5) We present observations on the multicyclic scratch reflex in spinal terrapins as produced by electrical stimuli applied to the shell at the specific regions at which a mechanical stimulus produces the reflex.
(6) The isolation of Salmonella java (phage type Worksop) from the water of a terrapin tank is described.
(7) Scolecobasidium humicola, a soil fungus and etiologic agent of phaeohyphomycosis in fish, is herein reported to cause cutaneous lesions in a tortoise, Terrapine carolina var.
(8) Southern blotting using a human 7SK pseudogene probe illuminated a series of multiple restriction fragments in mammalian genomes, with generally fewer fragments in the genomes of birds and reptiles and a single reactive fragment in DNA from terrapin (Pseudemys scripta elegans) and Xenopus laevis (South African clawed toad).
(9) These biochemical and histochemical observations indicate that these glands have a function in salt secretion in both species and are also consistent with a function of mucous secretion exclusively in Malaclemys terrapin.
(10) When you visit you'll probably find me back in the 7 Estrellas, discussing the finer points of terrapin keeping, spending lazy days on Culatra's beaches, and my nights on Olhão's tiles.
(11) The effects of the local application of glutamate, aspartate, glycine, GABA and dl-alanine were studied upon the intact and isolated cortices of barbiturate anesthetized cats and upon the intact cortex of similarly anesthetized terrapin turtles.
(12) Rostro-caudal ramification of terrapin hindlimb afferent nerves have been studied by cord dorsum potential analyses.
(13) Thus, the retractor capitis muscles of both terrapin and tortoise appear to be composed largely of ;twitch' fibres.
(14) The average amplitude was 0.78 mV in the tortoise and 0.54 mV in the terrapin.
(15) Limited signs of hypotrophy are not accompanied by changes in concentrations of sulfolipids in Malaclemys terrapin adapted to fresh water; only the reactions for enzyme activities are less intense.
(16) Fibre types in the iliofibularis muscle of the freshwater terrapin Pseudemys scripta elegans have been characterized on the basis of their histochemical characteristics, nerve endings and contractile properties.
(17) The present study, one of a series of studies on reptile tongues, aims to demonstrate the three-dimensional structure of the dorsal lingual surface of a turtle, the Japanese terrapin Clemmys japonica, and to clarify the ultrastructural features of the lingual epithelial cells.
(18) could be recorded at junctional regions in either tortoise or terrapin muscles.
(19) A total of 122 terrapins (freshwater chelonians) of 36 species and seven turtles (marine chelonians) represented by three species, all of which had died in captivity, were necropsied.
(20) In addition, the supranuclear region of the gland cells in Malaclemys terrapin is filled with mucin granules.