English Dictionary

testudo

noun

(Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads. / A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.

The testudo formation was used by the Ancient Romans for protection in battle.

意味（1）

(Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.

意味（2）

A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.

意味（3）

(anatomy) The fornix.

意味（4）

(music) A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.

意味（5）

(pathology) An encysted tumour.