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Testudo (which meant " tortoise" in classical Latin) may refer to: * Battering ram, an armored siege engine with metal plating on the top to protect from missiles fired from above * Chevrolet Testudo, a concept car designed and built by Bertone on a Chevrolet Corvair unibody chassis *
Steel Testudo The National Socialist Party (formally Nationalist-Socialist Party of Romania; Romanian: ''Partidul Național-Socialist din România'', PNSR)Ileana-Stanca Desa, Elena Ioana Mălușanu, Cornelia Luminița Radu, Iuliana Sulică, ''Publicațiile perio ...
or the Nationalist-Socialist Party of Romania, 1930s political party *
Testudo (mascot) Testudo, a diamondback terrapin, is the mascot of the University of Maryland, College Park and represents the university both at sporting events and as a more general symbol. Testudo has served as the school's mascot since the 1930s, and several ...
, the mascot of University of Maryland, College Park * ''Testudo'' (genus), a genus in the tortoise family of turtles * Testudo formation, a Roman military tactic which involved a formation of soldiers using their shields to form a tortoise-shell-like protective cover against enemy weapons * Testudo, the Latin variant of the Greek
chelys The chelys or chelus ( el, χέλυς, la, testudo, both meaning "turtle" or "tortoise"), was a stringed musical instrument, the common lyre of the ancient Greeks, which had a convex back of tortoiseshell or of wood shaped like the shell. The wor ...
harp, involving a sound-box made from a tortoise shell * Testudo, an obsolete constellation now in the constellation of
Pisces Pisces may refer to: * Pisces, an obsolete (because of land vertebrates) taxonomic superclass including all fish * Pisces (astrology), an astrological sign * Pisces (constellation), a constellation **Pisces Overdensity, an overdensity of stars in ...


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* Tortoise (disambiguation) {{disambiguation