Box Turtle (Noun)
Meaning
Chiefly terrestrial turtle of North America; shell can be closed tightly.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The eastern box turtle is one of six subspecies of box turtle commonly found in the eastern United States.
- While many people are aware that turtles live a long time a box turtle's life expectancy in the wild can vary from species to species.
- There was an effort in several US states to include the eastern box turtle on a protected list to shield them from danger of poachers and others seeking turtles as pets.
- An ideal outdoor space for the care of box turtles has partial shade direct sunlight plenty of moisture rich and good earth soil where digging occurs readily.
- You'll likely know an Ornate Box Turtle as being just shy of a four-inch size being fully-grown - is really easy going just maybe that extra nice temperament most the time just never do enough I can still offer on getting started of Ornate.