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RIDLEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ridley mean?
• RIDLEY (noun)
The noun RIDLEY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: RIDLEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A marine turtle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("ridley" is a kind of...):
marine turtle; sea turtle (any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ridley"):
Atlantic ridley; bastard ridley; bastard turtle; Lepidochelys kempii (grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America)
Lepidochelys olivacea; olive ridley; Pacific ridley (olive-colored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans)
Holonyms ("ridley" is a member of...):
genus Lepidochelys; Lepidochelys (ridleys)
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