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terrapin

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
terrapin/ˈterəpɪn/

▶noun

1 a small freshwater turtle. [Malaclemys terrapin (diamondback terrapin, eastern US) and many other species elsewhere.]

2 (Terrapin) Brit. trademark a prefabricated one-storey building for temporary use.

– origin C17: of Algonquian origin.

'terrapin' also found in these Oxford entries:

diamondback - shell

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