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- English Word Tortoise Definition having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
- English Word Tortoise Definition a tortoise-shell cat.
- English Word Tortricid Definition Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidae.
- English Word Tortrix Definition Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller.
- English Word Tortrix Definition A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.
- English Word Tortulous Definition Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
- English Word Tortuose Definition Wreathed; twisted; winding.
- English Word Tortuoslty Definition the quality or state of being tortuous.
- English Word Tortuous Definition Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
- English Word Tortuous Definition Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
- English Word Tortuous Definition Injurious: tortious.
- English Word Tortuous Definition Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
- English Word Torturable Definition Capable of being tortured.
- English Word Torture Definition Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
- English Word Torture Definition Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
- English Word Torture Definition The act or process of torturing.
- English Word Torture Definition To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
- English Word Torture Definition To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
- English Word Torture Definition To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
- English Word Torture Definition To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
- English Word Tortured Definition of Torture
- English Word Torturer Definition One who tortures; a tormentor.
- English Word Torturing. Definition of Torture
- English Word Torturingly Definition So as to torture.
- English Word Torturous Definition Involving, or pertaining to, torture.
- English Word Torula Definition A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Torulae Definition of Torula
- English Word Torulaform Definition Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.
- English Word Torulose Definition Same as Torose.
- English Word Torulous Definition Same as Torose.