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terrapin (n.)
North American turtle, 1670s, earlier
torope
(1610s), from an Algonquian source (e.g. Abenaki
turepe
, Delaware
tulpe
"turtle"). Subsequently extended to allied species in South America, East Indies, China, North Africa.