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

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

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoise shell: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. GLOSSARY OF JEWELRY-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tortoise shell)

noun:  The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material.
noun:  Alternative form of tortoiseshell [The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.]

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