testudinoid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of translingual Testudinoidea. By surface analysis, Latin testūdō + -in- + -oid.
Noun
[edit]testudinoid (plural testudinoids)
- Any turtle of the superfamily Testudinoidea.
- 2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution”, in PeerJ[1], volume 3, :
- The terrestrial mode of food uptake differs dramatically among and within the three testudinoid subgroups (see Bels, Davenport & Delheusy, 1997 ; Bels et al., 2008 ; Summers et al., 1998 ; Wochesländer, Hilgers & Weisgram, 1999 ; Natchev et al., 2009, present study).