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adj. - Of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise.

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  • The “superb specimen of a chelonian” was no longer there!
  • However, this is not the most general use to which the chelonian eggs are put in the provinces of Amazones and Para.
  • "Contempt will pierce the armor of a tortoise," says an oriental proverb; and poor Ragni had no chelonian armor.
  • The first three wall cases are devoted to the batrachian or Frog fossils; some of the chelonian or Tortoise fossils; and the fossil crocodiles.
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