Testudinaria (testudinaria)

[NL. (Salisbury, 1824), ing stems, alternate leaves, and small racemose flowers, which are diœcio us and spreading or broadly bell-shaped, with a three-celled ovary becoming in fruit a three-winged capsule. They are known as elephant's - foot and as Hotten tot's -bread. Resem testudinarious (tes-tu-di-nā'ri-us), a. bling tortoise-shell in color; mottled with red, yellow, and black, like tortoise-shell. Testudinata (tes-tu-di-nā'tä), n. pl. [NL. (Oppel, 1811), neut. pl. of L. testudinatus: see testu dinate.] 1. An order of Reptilia, having toothle jaws fashioned like the beak of a bird, two pairs of limbs fitted for walking or swimming, and the body incased in a bony box or leathery shell, consisting of a carapace and a plastron, to the formation of which the ribs and Testudo elephant opus , one of the Testudinata . dorsal vertebræ are specially modified; the turtles and tortoises. The carapace is usually covered with hard horny epidermal plates called tortoise -shell. There is no true sternum, its place being taken by a number of bones, typically nine, which compose the plastron, or under shell. The dorsal vertebræ are immovably fixed.