English

Noun

1. A land or marine reptile having a protective shell (made up of a carapace and a plastron) enclosing its body.
2. A sea turtle.
3. An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
4. A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
5. An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
   • 1997, Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing

     Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.