desert tortoise | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun desert tortoise has 1 sense

desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii - burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
--₁ is a kind of tortoise
--₁ is a member of Gopherus, genus Gopherus