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 Translation for 'giant tortoise' from English to Spanish
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galápago {m}
giant tortoise
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tortuga {f} mexicana [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
Mexican giant tortoise
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tortuga {f} de Mapimí [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
Mexican giant tortoise
Partial Matches
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tortuga {f} (de tierra)
tortoise
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tortuga {f} radiada [Astrochelys radiata, syn.: Geochelone radiata]
radiated tortoise
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tortuga {f} estrellada de Madagascar [Astrochelys radiata, syn.: Geochelone radiata]
radiated tortoise
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tortuga {f} mora [Testudo graeca]
Greek tortoise
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tortuga {f} mexicana [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
Bolson tortoise
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tortuga {f} de Mapimí [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
Bolson tortoise
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tortuga {f} mediterránea [Testudo hermanni]
Hermann's tortoise
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tortuga {f} mexicana [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
yellow-margined tortoise
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tortuga {f} de Mapimí [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
yellow-margined tortoise
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tortuga {f} mexicana [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
Mexican gopher tortoise
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tortuga {f} de Mapimí [Gopherus flavomarginatus]
Mexican gopher tortoise
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tortuga {f} mora [Testudo graeca]
(Mediterranean) spur-thighed tortoise
gigantesco {adj}giant
gigante {m}giant
astron.fís.
gigante {f} roja
red giant
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tucán {m} toco [Ramphastos toco]
giant toucan
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morena {f} gigante [Gymnothorax javanicus]
giant moray
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oso {m} hormiguero gigante [Myrmecophaga tridactyla]
giant anteater
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armadillo {m} gigante [Priodontes maximus, syn.: P. giganteus]
giant armadillo
dep.
slalom {m} gigante
giant slalom
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Usage Examples English
  • On Mauritius, the giant tortoise disappeared from the main island by the end of the 17th century and the very last tortoises survived until the 1730s on the islets in the north.
  • Owen and Mzee are a hippopotamus and an Aldabra giant tortoise, respectively, that became the subject of media attention after forming an unusual bond of friendship.
  • The habitat for the Sierra Negra giant tortoise, "Chelonoidis nigra guentheri", which has a saddleback shell, is on the southern and south eastern slopes of the volcano.
  • A sparsely populated group of coral islands in the Indian Ocean, politically part of the Seychelles. Noted for the Aldabra giant tortoise.
  • , using the imagery of a giant tortoise moving mountains which it carried upon its back .

  • As a naturalist he was very knowledgeable of the Galapagos Islands and wrote the first comprehensive study of the giant tortoise.
  • sulcata" is the largest species of tortoise in Africa and is also third-largest species of tortoise in the world after the Galapagos tortoise and Aldabra giant tortoise.
  • gigantea" is most closely related to the extinct giant tortoise "Aldabrachelys abrupta" from Madagascar, from which it is estimaged to have diverged from approximately 4.5 million years ago.
  • The zoo's slowest resident, the Aldabra giant tortoise, can be found in the enclosure directly across from its fastest resident, the cheetah.
  • He humiliates Sir Politic by telling him he is to be arrested for sedition and making him hide inside a giant tortoise shell.

  • The oldest living turtle and land animal is said to be a Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan, who turned 187 in 2019.
  • Jonathan, the world's oldest tortoise (an Aldabra giant tortoise), had been mating with another tortoise named Frederica since 1991.
  • ... "), also known as the Pinta giant tortoise, or Abingdon Island giant tortoise, is an extinct subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island.
  • To restore some forest areas, Grande Montagne, Anse Quitor (with neighbouring François Leguat Giant Tortoise Reserve) and two islets, Île aux Sables and Île aux Cocos have been declared nature reserves (under the Forest and Reserves Act 1983).
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