Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of tortoises, giving name to the Emydidæ.
- noun The name has been variously employed: For fresh-water tortoises in general of the family Clemmyidæ, such as E. lutaria of Europe, now generally called
Clemmys caspica , and numerous American species. - noun Restricted to certain box-tortoises belonging to the family now called
Cistudinidæ , such as the box-tortoise of Europe, Emys europæa, which is the emys of Aristotle and the ancients, and the Emys blandingi of North America.
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Examples
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The practiced eye of the reptile lover finds a great deal in Manouria emys that others might miss.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Saving a Living Treasure of Asia Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Included among these is the Giant Asian Forest Tortoise, Manouria emys, which occurs as far south as the Indonesian Island of Sumatra, and as far north as the Chinese border with Burma.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Saving a Living Treasure of Asia Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Thick-shelled turtle species lived with world's biggest snake, reveals fossil found in Columbian coal mine: Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki takes its genus name from Cerrejon, and emys -- Greek for turtle.
Archive 2010-04-04 Bill Crider 2010
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They include unique assemblages of mammal remains, notably hominid and primate records, but also bones of Elaphas planifrons, Stylohipparion libycum, Libytherium maurusium, Anacus osiris, Testudo gigans and T. emys.
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But the emys which came to the Wretham bog must have had a long journey; and a journey by fresh water too.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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Manouria emys, which occurs as far south as the Indonesian Island of Sumatra, and as far north as the Chinese border with Burma.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki takes its genus name from Cerrejón, and emys-Greek for turtle.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki takes its genus name from Cerrejón, and emys-Greek for turtle.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki takes its genus name from Cerrejón, and emys-Greek for turtle.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki takes its genus name from Cerrejón, and emys-Greek for turtle.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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