Usually means: Protective formation used by Romans.
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  1. testudo: Merriam-Webster
  2. testudo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. testudo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. testudo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Testudo, testudo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Testudo, testudo: Wordnik
  7. testudo: Wiktionary
  8. testudo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. testudo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. testudo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. testudo: Dictionary.com
  12. Testudo (genus), Testudo (mascot), Testudo (turtle), Testudo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Testudo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. testudo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Testudo: Rhymezone
  16. Testudo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. testudo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. testudo: FreeDictionary.org
  19. testudo: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. testudo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. testudo: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Testudo: Medical dictionary

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  1. testudo: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See testudines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (testudo)

noun:  (Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
noun:  A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
noun:  (anatomy) The fornix.
noun:  (music) A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
noun:  (pathology) An encysted tumour.

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