terrapin

美 [ˈterəpɪn]英 [ˈterəpɪn]

复数： terrapins

terrapin

noun

水龟（生活在北美温带江河湖泊中）
a small turtle (= a reptile with a hard round shell), that lives in warm rivers and lakes in N America

频次

1
N-COUNT 水龟
A terrapin is a reptile which has a thick shell covering its body and which lives partly in water and partly on land.

noun

any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water

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1

The diamondback terrapin in this undated photo has two heads .

这张未标日期的图片上的钻纹龟有两个头。
2

He also owns a two-headed goat , a two-headed terrapin and the world 's only living three-headed turtle .

他还拥有双头山羊、淡水龟，以及世上现存唯一的三头乌龟。
3

The results revealed that terrapin eggs can harbor 1 ~ 4 species of bacteria , while 90.66 % of them were contaminated with 1 or 2 species .

鳖蛋可携带1~4种细菌，其中以带1~2种菌最多（90.66%）。
4

Admittedly , it was about different species of turtles and whether I preferred the red-eared slider to the diamond-backed terrapin .

虽然我们聊的是不同种类的乌龟，以及我是不是更喜欢红耳龟，而不太喜欢菱背水龟。