Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun painted_tortoise

1 sense of painted tortoise

Sense 1
painted turtle, painted terrapin, painted tortoise, Chrysemys picta -- (freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States)
       => turtle -- (any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming)