The “superb specimen of a chelonian” was no longer there!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

However, this is not the most general use to which the chelonian eggs are put in the provinces of Amazones and Para.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

"Contempt will pierce the armor of a tortoise," says an oriental proverb; and poor Ragni had no chelonian armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference

The first three wall cases are devoted to the batrachian or Frog fossils; some of the chelonian or Tortoise fossils; and the fossil crocodiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The ploughshare tortoise Astrochelys yniphora is one of four highly threatened Madagascan chelonian species, a group that includes turtles, tortoises and terrapins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

I was blown away and knew that one of those egg laying, chelonian, testudinines was going to have to make their way onto our pages no matter how fast or slowly their webbed feet could get them here.    From Wordnik.com.  [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference

It invokes a typically chelonian view of life, myopically peering at a piece of lettuce for minutes on end before taking a slow motion bite, retreating into your shell with a wheeze whenever it is your round, and so on. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

But these wall cases are mainly devoted to the exhibition of chelonian, or tortoise fossils, which are the highest class of fossil reptiles, except the serpents, and found only in the later or oolite formations of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Asian appetites for turtle -- the Chinese alone consumed some 20 million last year -- have endangered or driven extinct 75 percent of their native species, outstripped efforts to farm select varieties and sent markets searching worldwide for easy chelonian bounty.    From Wordnik.com.  [FLA Politics - Front Page] Reference

It is manifested by the combination of modern crocodilian, chelonian, and lacertian characters in the Cryptodontia and the Dicnyodontia, and by the combined lacertian and crocodilian characters in the Thecodontia and Sauropterygia. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference

A chelonian” which they had turned over on the sand; but, two hours later, he and Neb returned with the cart to the place where they had left it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

Shiny. phascolomian -- wombat-like arctian -- moth-like chelonian -- tortoise-like and of course saurian -- lizard-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakfast in Bed] Reference

If you like turtles and want to help, you might wish to visit one of these sites: http://www. turtleconservationfund.org/(Be sure and open the links at the top) http://www. nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/turtles/(A government site) http://www. seaturtle.org/http://www. turtleconservationproject.org/(New England focus) http://emys. geo.orst.edu/default. html (scientific information about the state of many species) http://www. chelonian.org/homepage/(click on support button to help) http://passport. panda.org/campaigns/campaign. cfm? uNC = 33627489&uCampaignId = 1941 (marine turtles).    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Rosenfeld: Caring For Pets Helps Us--And The World] Reference