Crossword-Solution: TORTOISES
We have 11 clues for the answer “TORTOISES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Chinese emblems of longevity. | 1 answer |
| Galapagos giants | 1 answer |
| Galapagos heavyweights | 1 answer |
| Galápagos notables | 1 answer |
| Pets named Mary Shelly and Shell Silverstein, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Symbols of longevity in Chinese iconography | 1 answer |
| They bite but don't have teeth | 1 answer |
| They're slow going | 1 answer |
| Long-lived reptiles | 2 answers |
| Symbols of slowness | 3 answers |
| Slowpokes | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZMEAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TORTOISES (5)
But this hard body might be a bony carapace, like that of the antediluvian animals; and I should be free to class this monster among amphibious reptiles, such as tortoises or alligators.
And I gave her pink shells and tortoises and great milky pearls and little green lizards; and she gave me guinea-pigs, and coral to make into waistcoat-buttons, and tame sea-otters, and a real pirate's powder-horn.
There were huge tortoises too, paddling about among these other reptiles, which Perry said were Plesiosaurs of the Lias.
They gave them an equal admission into the house or cave, and they began to live very sociably; and the head Spaniard, who had seen pretty much of my methods, together with Friday's father, managed all their affairs; but as for the Englishmen, they did nothing but ramble about the island, shoot parrots, and catch tortoises; and when they came home at night, the Spaniards provided their suppers for them.
They stood above twenty days against the battering-rams and catapultoe, the mines and tortoises of the besiegers; and the place might have been relieved, if the mariners of the Imperial fleet had not been detained at Constantinople in building a church to the Virgin Mary.
Quotes with TORTOISES (3)
Anyway. I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can read anything I want. My favorite book is A Brief History of Time, even though I haven’t actually finished it, because the math is incredibly hard and Mom isn’t good at helping me. One of my favorite parts is the beginning of the first chapter, where Stephen Hawking tells about a famous scientist who was giving a lecture about how the earth orbits the sun, and …
Each spring for a period of weeks the imperial gardens were filled with prize tulips (Turkish, Dutch, Iranian), all of them shown to their best advantage. Tulips whose petals had flexed wide were held shut with fine threads hand-tied. Most of the bulbs had been grown in place, but these were supplemented by thousands of cut stems held in glass bottles; the scale of the display was further compounded by mirrors placed strategically around the garden. Each variety was marked wi…
Mary Hepburn was meanwhile murdering herself up in her room, lying on her bed with the polyethylene sheath of her "Jackie dress" swapped around her head. The sheath was now all steamed up inside, and she hallucinated that she was a great land tortoise lying on its back in the hot and humid hold of a sailing ship of long ago. She pawed the air in perfect futility, just as a land tortoise on its back would have done. As she had often told her students, sailing ships bound out a…
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).