terrapin
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It turned out to be a diamondback terrapin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Tulare Lake expanded each spring as rain and melting snow filled the valley, growing so large that fisherfolk could sail across its surface to catch terrapin for San Francisco restaurants.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2023
BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking - with all six of its legs - at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago.
From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2021
It filled the space with shimmering texts of cut metal that delved into unusual relationships, including that of the turtle conservationist Richard Ogust and the diamondback terrapin that pointed him toward his calling.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020
Spoade was in the middle of them like a terrapin in a street full of scuttering dead leaves, his collar about his ears, moving at his customary unhurried walk.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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