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- noun Plural form of
cooter .
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Examples
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Later that night, I wondered aloud to my husband what he had meant by “cooters.”
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He went on to say that in Washington state they were seeing what I heard as cooters and bears.
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Otherwise no one would care what they had in their cooters, would they?
Archive 2007-06-01 delagar 2007
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Otherwise no one would care what they had in their cooters, would they?
Not Depressed? delagar 2007
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If skinks and cooters ever catch the imagination of ecotourists, Wadmalaw will be golden.
Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006
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I hear cellblock D at Sing Sing is looking for some dusty cooters to toy with.
haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2005
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Taken as hatchlings from their nests last fall, these northern red-bellied cooters are part of a "head-start" program that pairs about 120 endangered turtles each year with volunteers who care for them through the winter, then return them to their natural habitat in the spring.
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"It was very much a kitchen-table sort of thing" at first, said Dave Taylor, the program coordinator for the cooters and a retired teacher who head-started turtles in his classroom at Triton High School in Byfield.
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The cooters are one of 17 species in Massachusetts that are federally recognized as endangered.
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"It's affected everyone in the science classrooms around here," said Dawn Diedricksen, a Hingham High science teacher who began headstarting cooters last year after she received a grant from the Curriculum Leadership Center at Bridgewater State College.
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