Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "turtle" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

box water

Capable Of

hide in shell live in water or on land live long time pet race hare

Derived Terms

African forest turtle African helmeted turtle African sideneck turtle African softshell turtle Afro-American sideneck turtle Alabama map turtle Alabama red-bellied turtle Alabama turtle Alamos mud turtle American Turtle Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles Arakan forest turtle Australasian pig-nose turtle Australian short-necked turtle Austro-American sideneck turtle Blanding's turtle Chinese pond turtle Chinese three-banded box turtle Chinese three-striped box turtle Fitzroy River turtle Florida redbelly turtle Fly River turtle Greenland turtle Kemp's ridley sea turtle Madagascan big-headed turtle Mary River turtle Muhlenberg's turtle New Guinea snakeneck turtle Nile softshell turtle Plymouth redbelly turtle Red River giant softshell turtle Shanghai softshell turtle Swinhoe's softshell turtle Turtle Bay Turtle Island Turtle River Turtle River Turtleford Yangtze giant softshell turtle alligator turtle alligator-turtle arrau turtle awkward turtle big-headed turtle black marsh turtle black turtle bean black-breasted leaf turtle bog turtle box turtle box-turtle chicken turtle chicken-turtle common snakeneck turtle cooter turtle diamond-backed turtle dragon turtle eastern long-neck turtle false map turtle fertile as a turtle flat-headed turtle flatback turtle golden coin turtle gopher turtle greaved turtle green turtle have a turtle's head hawk's-bill turtle hawk-billed turtle hawksbill sea turtle hawksbill turtle horned turtle land turtle leaf turtle leather turtle leather-turtle leatherback turtle leathery turtle logger-headed turtle loggerhead turtle lute turtle lyre turtle map turtle marine turtle marsh turtle mata mata turtle matamata turtle mock turtle mock turtle soup mud turtle musk turtle olive ridley turtle painted turtle pancake turtle pig-nose turtle pig-nosed turtle pignose turtle pitted-shelled turtle plateless turtle pond turtle red-bellied turtle red-eared turtle ridley turtle river turtle roofed turtle sea turtle sea-turtle side-necked turtle silver stater with a turtle snake-eating turtle snake-necked turtle snapping turtle snapping-turtle soft-shell turtle soft-shelled turtle softshell turtle speckled softshell turtle spiny turtle spotted turtle toad-headed turtle tortoise-shell turtle trunk turtle trunk-turtle turn the turtle turn turtle turning turtles turtle ant turtle barnacle turtle bean turtle cowrie turtle cowry turtle crawl turtle curb turtle dove turtle down turtle excluder device turtle frog turtle frolic turtle graphics turtle grass turtle hull turtle leech turtle neck turtle peg turtle racing turtle ship turtle socks turtle soup turtle stone turtle suit turtle trade turtle trading turtle up turtle vine turtle-back turtle-bird turtle-corral turtle-crab turtle-crawl turtle-deck turtle-dove turtle-egging turtle-footed turtle-grass turtle-head turtle-insect turtle-kraal turtle-neck turtle-net turtle-peg turtle-press turtle-shell turtle-soup turtle-stone turtle-twine turtleback turtlebloom turtleburger turtledom turtledove turtlehead turtleise turtleish turtleize turtleneck turtler turtles all the way down turtleshell turtlet turtleweed turtling turtlise turtlish turtlize turtly twist-necked turtle water turtle western swamp turtle wood turtle

Desires

water

Etymologically Related To

tortoise

Has Part

hard shell shell shield

Context

australia board games british canada comptheory computing dance historical military printing specifically us video games zoology

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

Chelonia T-shirt animal chelonian chelonian reptile hunt hunt down jersey jumper overturn run sweater tee shirt tip over track down tump over turn over vertebrate

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

caret jabuti matamata morrocoy sea turtle snapper

Type Of (IsA)

anapsid animal chelonian fictional character quadruped

Manner Of

hunt

Related Terms

:Category:Reptiles chelonian hatchling reptilelike terrapin tortoise

Related Terms

amphibian ancient rome animal back beak breakdancing bubble sort canada carapace chelonian computer program cursor defense domed element flip float form green hard hard carapace hard shell has has shell hatchling hunt lakes line drawing list move mover ninja on screen plate pond rabbit reptile robot saskatchewan shell shell animal shell beak shelled shelled animal shelled reptile shield slow slow mover snapping swim terrapin top tortoise turn turtle dove upside down water

Synonym Network

capsize chelonian turtleneck

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.