<And how about Cypraea testudinaria?>
testa = Latin, meaning shell
>testudo = Latin, a protective "shell" formed over a group of
soldiers by holding their shields overhead (simulating a tortoise or
turtle shell)
>Testudo = a genus of terrestrial tortoises
>testudinate = english, meaning "relating to or resembling a tortoise
or turtle"
>Cypraea testudinaria (common name: tortoise cowrie)
Paul M.