soft-shelled turtle
voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin; can inflict painful bites • Syn: pancake turtle • Hypernyms: turtle • Hyponyms: spiny softshell, Trionyx spiniferus, smooth softshell, Trionyx muticus • Member Holonyms: Trionychidae, family Trionychidae
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