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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell [syn: hawksbill turtle, hawksbill, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1712 a small brown or brown and yellow sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) of tropical waters that has a narrow pointed beak and a carapace of overlapping plates — compare tortoiseshell 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (in full hawksbill turtle) a small turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, yielding tortoiseshell.