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Sculptured tortoise
Sculpture Sculp"ture (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sculptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing.] To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave. Sculptured tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures.

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- prominent common names for the wood turtle, including sculptured tortoise, red-legged tortoise, and redleg. Although no subspecies are recognized, there...
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- The Tortoise and the Hare is a 1994 bronze sculpture by Nancy Schön, installed in Boston's Copley Square, in the U.S. state of M****achusetts. The work...
- Tortoises with Triangle and Time is an outdoor bronze sculpture in Holland Park, Kensington, London, England, adjacent to Abbotsbury Road. The work is...
- found throughout East Asia and the Russian Far East. The tradition of tortoise-mounted stelae originated no later than early 3rd century (late Han dynasty)...
- The C****idinae (tortoise and leaf-mining beetles) are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. The antennae arise close to each other and some...
- the park near Abbotsbury Road, installed in 2000, is the outdoor sculpture Tortoises with Triangle and Time by Wendy Taylor, commissioned by the Royal...
- The Tortoise and the Birds is a fable of probable folk origin, early versions of which are found in both India and Greece. There are also African variants...
- Tortoise Mountain TV Tower (Chinese: 龟山电视塔; pinyin: Guī Shān Diànshì Tǎ) is a 311.4 metres (1,022 ft) high TV Tower in Hanyang District, Wuhan, Hubei,...
- the northern end in the park, installed in 2000, is the outdoor sculpture Tortoises with Triangle and Time by Wendy Taylor, commissioned by the Royal...