cooter

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n. [美国南部英语]【动物】(美国南部和墨西哥北部的)几种水生海龟之一


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cooter (n.)
name for some types of freshwater terrapin in southern U.S., 1835 (first attested 1827 in phrase drunk as a cooter, but this probably is a colloquial form of unrelated coot), from obsolete verb coot "to copulate" (1660s), which is of unknown origin. The turtle is said to copulate for two weeks at a stretch.