testudo

Meaning of testudo

noun
  1. A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
  2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  3. A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
  4. An encysted tumour.
  5. The fornix.

Information about testudo

Hyphenation of testudo

tes-tudo

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • testudo is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of testudo

duettos

Words that rhyme with testudo

lippitudo, necessitudo, Cistudo

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