testudinal

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testudinal (tes-TOOD-i-nuhl, tes-TYOOD-i-nuhl) - adj., of, pertaining to, or resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell.


As in being slow, old, or arched. Coined around 1820 from Latin testūdō, tortoise.

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