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testudo

noun

A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.

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Word length
7
Starts with
T
Ends with
O
Contains
ES
Scrabble score
8
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

Meaning

Definitions

noun

  1. A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.

  2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.

  3. A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.

  4. An encysted tumour.

  5. The fornix.

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