terrapin

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small edible freshwater turtle of North America

   A terrapin basked on a log at the edge of the marsh.

Simplified etymology

Terrapin entered English in the early 17th century from a lost Algonquian word resembling Abnaki turepé.

From an Algonquian language, probably Virginia Algonquian torope ('turtle'), anglicized and reshaped in American English.

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