cooter

cooter
/kooh"teuhr/, n.
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
[1820-30; said to be < Bambara, Malinke kuta turtle (with related forms in other Niger-Congo languages); cf. coot to copulate (of sea turtles), first attested in the Caribbean in 1667]

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