'Painted turtle' definitions:
Definition of 'painted turtle'
From: WordNet
noun
Freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States [syn: painted turtle, painted terrapin, painted tortoise, Chrysemys picta]
Definition of 'Painted turtle'
From: GCIDE
- Painted \Paint"ed\, a.
- 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. [1913 Webster]
- As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. [1913 Webster]
- Painted beauty (Zool.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors,
- Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows.
- Painted finch. See Nonpareil.
- Painted lady (Zool.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.
- Painted turtle (Zool.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath. [1913 Webster]