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Tortoise

Part of speech: Noun, Thing

The tortoises.

- Turtles need to look both ways before trying to cross the highway.
- Turtles may move slow, but they can snap quickly.
- Turtles cannot stick out their tongues to catch food.
- Turtles do not have any teeth. They use their jaws to cut and chew food.
- Turtles cannot crawl out of the shell.
- Turtles lay eggs.
I am going to take my time getting there. I am not in a rush, because I am a turtle.
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Key words: Animal, Reptile, Tortoise, Tortoises, Turtle

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Words of Wisdom

These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, Leviticus 11:29