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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tortoise-shell, tortoise-shell: Wordnik
  2. tortoise-shell: Wiktionary
  3. tortoise-shell: Dictionary.com
  4. tortoise-shell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  5. tortoise-shell: FreeDictionary.org
  6. tortoise-shell: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoise-shell: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoise-shell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoise-shell: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tortoise-shell)

noun:  Alternative form of tortoiseshell [The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.]
adjective:  Alternative form of tortoiseshell [Made of the covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.]

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