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# leatherback

«leatherback» in Mova's school dictionary: **The leatherback turtle, the largest turtle in the world…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a leatherback, leatherbacks)

### meaning for a pupil

The leatherback turtle, the largest turtle in the world, a sea turtle whose shell is covered with tough, leathery skin instead of hard plates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leatherback/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and ocean lessons it is an endangered animal that eats jellyfish and can mistake plastic bags for them, so it shows why litter in the sea is dangerous. It swims very long distances and dives very deep. Phrases: leatherback turtle, leatherback sea turtle.

### examples

- The leatherback is the biggest turtle on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leatherback/#x1)
- A leatherback can weigh as much as a small car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leatherback/#x2)
- Leatherbacks eat mostly jellyfish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leatherback/#x3)
- Plastic bags in the sea can kill a leatherback that thinks they are food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leatherback/#x4)
- Leatherback mothers come ashore at night to lay eggs in the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leatherback/#x5)
- The leatherback's shell feels like rubbery leather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leatherback/#x6)

### note

Countable. It is a compound of leather + back. A big leatherback can be about two metres long and weigh several hundred kilograms.

### In the corpora

- [A floating plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a leatherback, which is one big reason to keep plastic out of the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/11/)
- [Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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