arrau

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arrau (plural arraus)

  1. Short for arrau turtle.
    • 1819, Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland, Personal Narrative of Travel to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Whatever, You're Not Reading This Anyway (page 486)
      The Jesuits ... left a part intact, from the fear of seeing the arrau tortoises ... considerably diminished.
    • 1872, A. Romer, Anecdotal and Descriptive Natural History, page 68:
      We were shown large shells of turtles emptied by the Jaguars. These animals follow the arraus towards the beaches, when the laying of eggs is to take place.
    • 2009, R. Stefoff, Turtles, page 89:
      Government programs to protect nesting sites ... helped[, as] the arrau is not yet extinct.

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