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  • n  any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water

  • In Richmond's conservative Commonwealth Club 200 Virginians and their guests last week gathered to dine on terrapin stew, beaten biscuits, Smithfield ham and orange ice, toast .
  • Off North Carolina's coast, ghost crab pots continue to trap and kill diamondback terrapin turtles.
  • In the early 1930s thousands of pounds of terrapin were harvested in Maryland, but by 1937 the yield had fallen to just 537 pounds, according to Peter Paul van Dijk, director of .
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  • Ralph Friedgen in Baltimore Sun
    This year, what I'm trying to do is invite our lettermen to join us in Terrapin Alley. Let the lettermen walk before us and let the people recognize some of the players who have been here in the past,Friedgen said.
  • Terri Seymour in The Sun
    Simon's made it clear that he doesn't want children,Terri says. "But I've always been pretty open about the fact that I do. His suggestion was that I should get a terrapin instead!"
  • Andrew P Harris in Salisbury Daily Times
    From opposing open-bay dumping, to protecting the yellow perch and the Maryland terrapin, to opposing the Unicorn Lake landfill, I have a strong common-sense environmental record,Harris said.

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