How To Use Terrapin In A Sentence
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Terrapins have been observed in several of the marsh creeks, but not in all of the creeks where searches were completed.
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‘There will be a demonstration on reptiles like snakes, terrapins, skinks and tortoises, that will look at how they adapt to the environment,’ says zoo educationist Imelda Matlala.
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We're forever called over to see little kids with terrapins in their pockets.
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Outlook: Terrapins lose three main cogs in their recent success - All-America G Juan Dixon, C Lonny Baxter and F Byron Mouton.
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The first stop allows youngsters to feed the deer and sheep, then the party moves onwards to stroke the ducks and, finally, to feed the rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and terrapins.
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Some persons," wrote the Dutch traveller, Van der Donck, in 1656, "prepare delicious dishes from the water terrapin, which is luscious food.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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An old boating lake here is now a pond rumoured to be home to a couple of terrapins.
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Hamsters would be added to the mailman's shoulder as would parrots, guinea pigs, terrapins and wombats.
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Volunteers found 21 diamondback terrapins in abandoned crab traps pulled from the edge of the bay.
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The terrapin is a small turtle, found on the shores of Maryland and
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He even called the astute Terrapin a humbug, and toward midnight grew quarrelsome.
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In addition to the clean-cars standards, the Legislature approved a bill outlawing the trapping of the diamondback terrapin, which is the state reptile and official mascot of the University of Maryland.
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In addition to conserving globally important populations of freshwater dolphins, the new wildlife sanctuaries in the Sundarbans are expected to provide protection for other threatened aquatic wildlife including the river terrapin, masked finfoot, and small-clawed otter.
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It was sort of touching, the lengths the ground crews went to on the behalf of the diamondback terrapins.
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We already have problems with grey squirrels, now coatis and terrapins are also a problem.
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Soon Jon-Tom and the terrapin were the only ones still playing.
The Time of the Transference
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Of the five creeks, we know for sure that two did not support terrapins via sampling done by Chambers, and no terrapins were ever observed in the two not directly sampled.
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Oh dear dog, the idea of terrapin poo on KY's elegant 'do ....
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‘The diamondback terrapin became one of the most economically important reptiles in the world,’ said Lovich.
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However, instead, they found a fresh water terrapin, a turtle-like creature normally kept as a pet.
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Now we find there are eight - at least - in a small fountain with a dozen or so nervous-looking fish, which keep themselves very much to themselves about as far away from the terrapins as they can get.
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The northern diamondback terrapin, red fox, snapping turtle, raccoon, rabbit, skunk, opossum and blue crab, all animals that do well living close to people, have adapted nicely to the rapid changes of the Meadowlands.
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A light rain pelted the largely orange-clad crowd of 32,517 in the second half, with even Terrapins mascot Testudo donning a rain poncho over his shell.
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The gentle splashings of two huge terrapins punctuate the tides of sound coming out of the stereo's speakers.
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The chief design flourish is the patterned panel on the sides of the jersey and shorts that evokes the shell of a diamondback terrapin.
Terps Unveil New Uniforms, Chemistry at Maryland Madness
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For the most part, say the two scientists, terrapins are remarkable homebodies, being found not only in the same creek from year-to-year, but often in the same small reach of water.
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Since then, they have found homes for around 1,200 creatures ranging from dogs, cats, guinea pigs, chickens and geese to terrapins, snakes and iguanas.
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Following the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in the late 1980s, thousands of children bought turtles and terrapins.
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Dixon, on the way to 18 points in his final college game, answers with a three-point dagger from the left wing, putting the Terrapins up 45-44 with 9: 43 left
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Coming off a 10-point loss to unheralded Middle Tennessee State, the Terrapins were given little chance against a California juggernaut that totaled 104 points in disposing of Michigan State and Pac-10 foe Washington State.
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With increased demand for terrapins by epicures, prices soared and a market was born to supply the big eastern cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
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In the early 1990s, during the Ninja Turtle craze, 250,000 baby terrapins the size of a 50p piece were imported into Britain as pets and most died due to lack of knowledge on their upkeep.
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In 1903, at the time of Le Guide's publication, you could walk into Delmonico's Restaurant, in New York City, and order such favorites as diamondback terrapin (a small eastern turtle), whitetail deer, and canvasback duck.
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Coach Williams is that pre-game fist pump to the student section before every home game that electrifies the Terrapin faithful and sends shivers down the spine of every opponent that dares enter our house.
Gary Williams - A tribute to a great Terrapin
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If Maryland wants to prove prognosticators wrong and make a run at another title, the Terrapins must forget their success and reaffirm their hard-shell attitude.
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With increased demand for terrapins by epicures, prices soared and a market was born to supply the big eastern cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
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Crabs or fish or even a diamondback terrapin enters a trap to feed on the bait, can't get out, dies and becomes the bait that attracts more victims.
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In population studies, most of the terrapins were consistently captured in large numbers only in Turtle Creek.
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The British public's fascination with exotic animals is giving the RSPCA problems ranging from a tank full of terrapins dumped on a doorstep in Rotherham to a Burmese python abandoned in a back yard in Bradford.
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In 1924 he published, to great acclaim, The Flaming Terrapin, an exuberant allegorical narrative of the Flood, in which the terrapin represents energy and rejuvenation.
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I had caught a great many terrapins, of course, both the black ones with the thick freckling of golden pin-head spots on them, and the slim grey ones with fawny-cream lines; but Old Plop was something I had set my heart on.
My Family and Other Animals
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My first meeting with a jaguar took place one misty morning on a sandbank in northern Brazil, where I was trying to film giant expansa terrapins.
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It would be in the upper Rio Branco, in Northern Brazil, though, where Nick, hiding in a pit filming giant expansa terrapins, would see his first jaguar in the wild.
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The river and its surrounding vegetation are home to monitor lizards, terrapins, monkeys, river otters and sea eagles.
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We collected diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, eggs from multiple sights within its range to quantify variation in egg size and the amount of stored energy reserves provided within the eggs.
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They will be preparing 40 to 50 of the 250 tortoises and terrapins that share their home near Tewkesbury for hibernation.
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It includes some natural history displays which are always there, including live terrapins, frogs and guinea pigs.
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In the Baltimore markets four kinds of terrapin are sold -- not counting muskrat, which is sometimes disguised with sauce and sherry and served as a substitute.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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The periwinkle in turn is preyed upon by blue crabs and diamondback terrapins.
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There are no official figures on the number of exotic pets in the UK but the type of animals on sale from pet shops include birds, snakes and other reptiles, terrapins and even small alligators.
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In addition to the line, the secondary is a question mark for the Terrapins, who will be looking for Kenny Tate and Antwine Perez to step up their game now that they are the projected starters at safety, while redshirt freshman Dexter McDougle could find himself starting at corner.
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But to read day after day in the paper, this golden domesday-book, the lists of rich people who ate terrapin together, or danced together in lace frills and white cravats afterwards, and to read it with avidity, is what might be done in some world of satire.
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Nine of the critically endangered species targeted by the grants are reptiles, including the Siamese crocodile, Antiguan racer, and river terrapin; seven are birds, including the Siberian crane, Polynesian ground-dove, and Madagascar pochard; and five are mammals, including the giant sable and the duiker, in addition to the Ethiopian wolf.
Salazar Announces Nearly $650 Thousand in Grants to Conserve Critically Endangered Wildlife Around the Globe
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The terrapins were OK because they just sunned themselves in the aquarium, but then the cats and the three puppies arrived.
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The Moore Honeyhouse is a new addition to an apiarian smallholding near the top of Little Terrapin Mountain in North Carolina.
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Easy paddling along 30 miles of marked water trails takes you through a 2,900-acre salt marsh that is abundant with wildlife - snowy egrets, diamondback terrapins and herons, along with bluefish, rockfish, sea trout and flounder.
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In 1880, a Washington Post reporter called terrapin vital to any dinner party "laying claim to being a pretentious affair.
Matthew Jacob: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio and Turtle Soup?
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A small tortoise, called a terrapin, [198] is taken in some rivers, creeks, and swampy grounds, and is used as an article of food.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Wheeler Marsh in Milford, Connecticut provides habitat for diamondback terrapins, a unique estuarine turtle.
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The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boatman he is.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America
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It would appear that the low plant density of Turtle Creek may assist the terrapins by making resources more accessible there than in other creeks.
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This suggests that all could provide food for diamondback terrapins.
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The first stop allows youngsters to feed the deer and sheep, then the party moves onwards to stroke the ducks and, finally, to feed the rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and terrapins.
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Considered a delicacy and served in restaurants, diamondback terrapins were heavily harvested along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts through most of the past century.
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Studies on the eggs of diamondback terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin, demonstrated that at least one dune grass, Ammophila breviligulata, has the ability to absorb nutrients from turtle eggs.
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But it also houses turtles called diamondback terrapins (
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I found a "cooter" (terrapin) which had come out of the river to lay eggs.
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