how to pronounce terrapin

/ˈtɛɹ.ə.pɪn/

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terrapin is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of terrapin in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… this is one of the Terrapin specimens …”

meanings of terrapin

noun:

Any of several small turtles, of the families Emydidae and Geoemydidae, that live in fresh or brackish water.

terrapin frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word terrapin occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics terrapin can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that terrapin can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;