Sentence examples of "tortugas" in Spanish with translation "tortoise"

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Translations: all14 turtle9 tortoise5
Las tortugas gigantes fueron diezmadas por los piratas en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Giant tortoises were decimated by pirates in the 18th and 19th century.
De lejos, la pequeña isla se parecía a una tortuga. The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.
Murió la tortuga gigante de las Islas Galápagos conocida como el Solitario George. The Galapagos Islands giant tortoise known as Lonesome George is dead.
El Solitario George, la última tortuga de su especie que quedaba, murió por causas desconocidas. Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind, died of unknown causes.
El mundo se apoya sobre un elefante, y el elefante se apoya sobre una tortuga. The world rests upon an elephant and the elephant rests upon a tortoise.
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