Definition of "land-tortoise" [land-tortoise]

• A chelonian of terrestrial habits; a testudine. Also land-turtle. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Its name is _Colossochelys atlas_, a land-tortoise of the Miocene time of geology."
• "They would have mistaken the track of the moose for that of a wild cat; they would have thought the tread of a land-tortoise the trail of the grey snake; they would have killed an owl and feasted upon it, for a heath-hen."
• "The reduced size of the wings of these island birds is paralleled by the remarkable thinness, &c., of the shell of the "gigantic land-tortoise" of the Galapagos Islands."