chicken turtle

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See also: chicken-turtle

English

A chicken turtle.

Etymology

After the chicken-like flavor of its meat.

Noun

chicken turtle (plural chicken turtles)

  1. An uncommon freshwater turtle, of species Deirochelys reticularia, found in the southeast of the United States, similar in appearance to the eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta picta), but with an unusually long, striped neck, a yellow stripe on each of its legs and a net-like pattern on its carapace.
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 81:
      ‘I've a chicken-turtle, which promises well—the first I've received this season, from what I call my West-Indian farm […] .’

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