testudo noun. [tɛ'stju:dǝʊ, -'stu:-] Pl. -dos, -dines [-dɪni:z]. LME.
[Latin, from testa pot, shell, testu pot-lid.]
1. Medicine. An encysted cranial tumour. Long only in Dicts. LME-M19.

2. Zoology. A tortoise, esp. one of the genus Testudo including the common European species. Now chiefly as mod. Latin genus name. LME.

3. Hist. A movable screen with an arched roof, used to protect besieging troops; a protective screen formed by a body of troops in close array with overlapping shields usu. above their heads. LME.

4. Music History. In antiquity, a kind of lyre. E18.

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