side-necked turtle

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side-necked turtle (plural side-necked turtles)

  1. Any turtle of the suborder Pleurodira, characterised by protecting its head by turning it to one side rather than, as hidden-neck turtles do, withdrawing it into its shell.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 29:
      As we scan the Gaelian shore we see large side-necked turtles sunning themselves.

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