testudo

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Noun

testudo (plural testudos)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
3. (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.
4. An encysted tumour.
5. (anatomy) The fornix.

Translations

• Russian: черепа́ха

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