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snapping turtle

NOUN
  1. large aggressive freshwater turtle with powerful jaws

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  • On your walk you will probably see mallards, grebes, canvasbacks and coons and perhaps snapping turtles and white pelicans.
  • Rinella's meal, which took days of preparation and required ingredients like snapping turtle, swallow's nest and perch milt, was definitely not a novice-level culinary adventure.
  • More recently, I note that Walker et al. (1998) have published a paper with the title ‘Phylogeographic uniformity in mitochondrial DNA of the snapping turtle’: I haven’t seen this but it at least implies that they did not find evidence for polytypy within snappers. Archive 2006-02-01
  • Luke's mother Julia told the Guardian: ‘When he gave the snapping turtle some lettuce its head popped out and it spat at him and nearly chopped his fingers off.’
  • Phylogeographic uniformity in mitochondrial DNA of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Archive 2006-02-01
  • On your walk you will probably see mallards, grebes, canvasbacks and coons and perhaps snapping turtles and white pelicans.
  • Three other tortoises, two snapping turtles and a monitor lizard had to be hosed down by firefighters in Eric and Carole Griffiths' home in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
  • Open pond displays are homes to a wonderful collection of amphibians such as the red-eared slider, the common snapping turtle, wood turtles, painted turtles, and stinkpot turtles.
  • In their native habitat, predators such as large water snakes, alligators, and snapping turtles keep adult bullfrogs in check, while fish slurp tadpoles.
  • Scott Tyler, a hydrogeologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, was one of the first researchers to adapt the tool for science, tweaking it to be more precise (to a 10th of a degree) and more durable: "We had to figure out, for example, what kind of cable a snapping turtle wouldn't bite through. Wired Top Stories
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