noun
soft-shelled turtles
• Syn: ↑family Trionychidae
• Hypernyms: ↑reptile family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Chelonia, ↑order Chelonia, ↑Testudinata, ↑order Testudinata, ↑Testudines, ↑order Testudines
• Member Meronyms: ↑soft-shelled turtle, ↑pancake turtle, ↑Trionyx, ↑genus Trionyx
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\\ˌtrīəˈnikəˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin Trionych-, Trionyx, type genus + -idae
: a family of soft-shelled freshwater turtles containing both fossil Tertiary and living forms in which the horny plates of carapace and plastron are replaced by leathery skin and constituting a distinct superfamily of Cryptodira
Useful english dictionary. 2012.