Turtledom

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a turtle, or of belonging to the world of turtles; turtles, collectively. uncountable

    "It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth."

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"It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth."

Etymology

From turtle + -dom.

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