tortoise shell

See also: tortoiseshell and tortoise-shell

English

Noun

tortoise shell (plural tortoise shells)

1. The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material.
2. Alternative form of tortoiseshell.

Derived terms

• tortoise shell bracket

Translations

shell of a tortoise

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龜殼 / 龟壳 (zh) (guīké), 龜甲 / 龟甲 (zh) (guījiǎ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kilpikonnankuori
• German: Schildkrötenpanzer (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: χελώνιον n (khelṓnion)

• Gujarati: કચકડું n (kacakḍũ)
• Hungarian: teknő (hu)
• Japanese: 亀甲 (ja) (きっこう, kikkō)
• Korean: 귀갑(龜甲) (gwigap), 귀각(龜殼) (gwigak)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: щиток (ŝitok)

• Polish: szylkret (pl) m
• Russian: па́нцирь черепа́хи m (páncirʹ čerepáxi)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: caparazón de tortuga m
• Tagalog: kala
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: mai rùa (vi)