SpellRight › Spelling
Raretestudo
The correct spelling is testudo.
How to pronounce testudo
noun
Say it like: Tes-tud-o
The correct spelling is testudo. A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
Usage Examples
No usage examples in context are available for this word.
Definition
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.
Similar words
Words related in meaning — check their spelling too.