Usually means: Multicolored pattern, typically in cats.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word tortoiseshell:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortoiseshell: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tortoiseshell: Merriam-Webster
  3. tortoiseshell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tortoiseshell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tortoiseshell: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tortoiseshell: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tortoiseshell, tortoiseshell: Wordnik
  8. tortoiseshell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tortoiseshell: Wiktionary
  10. tortoiseshell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tortoiseshell (tortoise shell): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tortoiseshell: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tortoiseshell: Dictionary.com
  14. tortoiseshell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tortoiseshell (disambiguation), Tortoiseshell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. tortoiseshell: Rhymezone
  17. tortoiseshell: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tortoiseshell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tortoiseshell: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoiseshell: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoiseshell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoiseshell: Medical dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IndyGem Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See tortoiseshells as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.
noun:  The hawksbill turtle.
noun:  A domestic cat (or a rabbit, guinea-pig, etc.) whose fur has black, brown and yellow markings.
noun:  Any of several butterflies, mostly of the genera Nymphalis and Aglais that have similar markings.
adjective:  Made of the covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.
adjective:  Having markings resembling covering of carapace of hawksbill turtle.

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