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What is a turtleback?

What is a turtleback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell).
  2. (nautical) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, designed to shed seawater quickly.
  3. A primitive stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
  4. A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover.
  5. Any plant of the genus Psathyrotes of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America.
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The most famous buildings in Utah are the many-spired Mormon Temple and the turtleback Mormon Tabernacle, both in Salt Lake City.
Distance control into this week's turtleback greens, along with a silky touch upon them, will be crucial to success and nobody fits the bill better than this duo.
These highs, called remnant highs or turtleback highs, do not have as much vertical relief as the salt domes among which they are interspersed.
Because of its shape, Singer company brochures of the 1920s referred to it as the turtleback Machine.
We found out later that the turtleback had met with my hook at the end of my first bolter.
The furniture includes four reading roundtables, seven side chairs, two armchairs, a bookcase and a series of so-called turtleback sconces.

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