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Meaning of carettochelyid | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Any turtle in the family Carettochelyidae.

Examples

Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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