TESTUDO

Testudo

Testudo is a genus of tortoises found in North Africa, western Asia, and Europe. Several species are under threat in the wild, mainly from habitat destruction.

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testudo

Noun

  1. A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
  2. A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.


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