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| hawks·bill [ háwks bìl ] (plural hawks·bills or hawks·bill) or hawks·bill tur·tle (plural hawks·bill tur·tles) or hawk·bill [ háwk bìl ] (plural hawk·bills or hawk·bill) |
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tropical sea turtle: a sea turtle, reaching 61 cm (2 ft) in length, that has a yellowish brown shell of overlapping plates. Native to: tropics. Latin name Eretmochelys imbricata.
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