arrau

plural arraus

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of arrau turtle.

   Government programs to protect nesting sites ... helped[, as] the arrau is not yet extinct.

   2009, R. Stefoff, Turtles, page 89

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   The Jesuits ... left a part [of the beach] intact, from the fear of seeing the arrau tortoises ... considerably diminished.

   1819, Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Personal Narrative of Travel to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, page 486

   We were shown large shells of turtles emptied by the Jaguars. These animals follow the arraus towards the beaches, when the laying of eggs is to take place.

   1872, A. Romer, Anecdotal and Descriptive Natural History, page 68