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Definitions: Testudo |
TestudoNoun1. A movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification. 2. Type genus of the Testudinidae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "testudo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Testudo \Tes*tu"do\, noun; plural Testudines. [Latin expression, from testa the shell of shellfish, or of testaceous animals.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: TestudoSynonym: genus Testudo (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Testudo |
| English words defined with "testudo": Elephantine tortoise ♦ genus Testudo ♦ Testudo graeca. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "testudo": Cat and Tortoise. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "testudo": Testudinal, Testudinata. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Testudo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (tortoise), Spanish (testudo). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Testudo Caretta".Credit: USDA. |
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Expressions using "testudo": genus Testudo ♦ Testudo Carilina ♦ Testudo elephantina ♦ testudo graeca. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
testudo | 33 |
testudo hermanni | 10 |
testudo horsfieldii | 10 |
testudo graeca | 7 |
kleinmanni testudo | 4 |
graeca graeca testudo | 3 |
testudo marginata | 3 |
roman testudo | 2 |
hermani reproduccion testudo | 2 |
miniature testudo | 2 |
horsfieldi testudo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "testudo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Schildkröte (roadbed, tortoise, turtle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | estudotay testudo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "testudo": testudos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "testudo" (pronounced 'Tes*tu"do'): Accelerando, Adelantado, Albedo, Alcedo, Ambuscado, Amido, Amontillado, Armado, Aviado, Avocado, Barricado, Barrigudo, Bocardo, Bravado, Calando, Cardo, Colorado, Commando, Credo, Crusado, Cruzado, Dado, Decrescendo, Desperado, Dido, Diminuendo, Dodo, Dorado, Forzando, Glissando, Grenado, Hirudo, Hirundo, Ido, Imbrocado, innuendo, Inuendo, Lentando, mikado, Morendo, Nondo, Pardo, Peludo, Poynado, Privado, Procedendo, Quasimodo, Rallentando, Reconcentrado, Reformado, Renegado, Rinforzando, ritardando, Rodomontado, Rotundo, Scherzando, Scudo, secondo, Soldo, Spado, Sticcado, Stoccado, teredo, Toledo, tornado, Tremando, Tremolando, Uredo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ousted, outset, setout, sotted, toused, touted. | |
-2 letters: doest, dotes, douse, duets, outed, stout, toted, totes, touse, touts. | |
-3 letters: does, dose, dost, dote, dots, dues, duet, duos, dust, odes, ouds, oust, outs, sett, stet, stud, sued, suet, teds, test, tets, tods, toed, toes, tost, tote, tots, tout, tuts, udos, used. | |
-4 letters: doe, dos, dot, due, duo, eds, ode, ods, oes, ose, oud, out, set, sod, sot, sou, sue, ted, tet, tod, toe, tot, tut, udo, use, uts. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, es, et, od, oe, os, so, to, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outdates, testudos. | |
+2 letters: devoutest, outfasted, outlasted, outskated, outstared, outstated, outstayed, outstride, outstrode, outtasked, outtrades, outwasted, stoutened, unspotted. | |
+3 letters: autostrade, doughtiest, drouthiest, eutectoids, fortitudes, mistutored, nonstudent, obstructed, outboasted, outdebates, outfeasted, outhustled, outshouted, outsmarted, outstarted, outsteered, outstrides, outstudied, outstudies, outstunted, postulated, poussetted, subtotaled. | |
+4 letters: colatitudes, constituted, constructed, deconstruct, degustation, deputations, destitution, destruction, droughtiest, misbuttoned, nonstudents, outdistance, outsprinted, outstridden, outstripped, outwrestled, prostituted, rotundities, silhouetted, subtotalled, tendentious, turtledoves, uncontested, undistorted, woodcutters. | |
+5 letters: adulterators, adventitious, deconstructs, deglutitions, degustations, destitutions, destructions, deuterations, deuterostome, educationist, expostulated, multistoried, orotundities, outdatedness, outdistanced, outdistances, outstretched, postgraduate, promptitudes, reductionist, stouthearted, thunderbolts, thunderstone, thunderstorm, tolbutamides, unobstructed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 73 74 75 64 6F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . ... - ..- -.. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01110101 01100100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e s t u d o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0073 0074 0075 0064 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54718586877081 |
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