tortoises
- 1Plural of tortoise.
Giant tortoises can live for well over a century.
Several tortoises basked on the warm rocks near the pond.
Note
A regular plural: the singular already ends in e, so only -s is added. What it counts depends on the speaker's variety. In chiefly Canadian and US usage, tortoises belong to the family Testudinidae. In chiefly British, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, South African and Indian usage, any land-dwelling member of the order Testudines qualifies. The same plural also serves the sense of a wheeled shelter, a synonym of cat.
tortoises is a form of tortoise
tortoise, noun: A land-dwelling reptile whose body is enclosed in a shell of carapace and plastron, able to withdraw its head and legs partially inside for protection from predators. Full entry
- Forms
- tortoisetortoises plural
- Spelling
- tortoise → tortoises: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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