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# turtle

«turtle» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **turtle-dove** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

turtle-dove

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A small wild dove, not a reptile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/turtle/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "turtle" means a reptile with a shell. The old sense is the turtle-dove, a bird.

### examples

- And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; (Torah LEV.14.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/turtle/#x1)
- "Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! (Grimm's Fairy Stories) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/turtle/#x2)
- And if his offering to the LORD be a burnt-offering of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons. (Torah LEV.1.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/turtle/#x3)

### primary record

turtle

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 95 (Torah 9, tales 86, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 10.8 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.399/)
- [O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1272/)
- [Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/14/)
- [The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/16/)
- [Sea turtles have lived in the oceans since the time of the dinosaurs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turtle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/turtle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.