English-Italian translations for tortoise

tartarugaE' stata una fortuna che lei abbia avuto una tartaruga di giada. Having a tortoise made of jade was felicitous. Le loro attività sono come la lepre, mentre le nostre risposte come la tartaruga. Their activities represent the hare, and our responses the tortoise. Opera con la velocità di una tartaruga, mentre noi necessitiamo di un'azione immediata. It works at the pace of a tortoise, and we want action now.
tartaruga , testuggine (maa-

testuggineSignora Presidente, ieri i giornali riportavano buone notizie riguardanti la schiusa di alcune uova di una rara testuggine egiziana.on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. - Madam President, yesterday the newspapers had some good news. It was about the hatching of some rare Egyptian tortoise eggs.

Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae or the order Testudines , whose body is enclosed in a shell . The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators

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