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testudo

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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.

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  1. 1.A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
  2. 2.A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  3. 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. 4.An encysted tumour.
  5. 5.The fornix.

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