# Testudo

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**Testudo** (which meant "[tortoise](/source/Tortoise)" in classical Latin) may refer to:

- [Battering ram](/source/Battering_ram), an armored siege engine with metal plating on the top to protect from missiles fired from above
- [Chevrolet Testudo](/source/Chevrolet_Testudo), a concept car designed and built by Bertone on a Chevrolet Corvair unibody chassis
- [Steel Testudo](/source/Steel_Testudo) or the Nationalist-Socialist Party of Romania, 1930s political party
- [Testudo (mascot)](/source/Testudo_(mascot)), the mascot of University of Maryland, College Park
- [*Testudo* (genus)](/source/Testudo_(genus)), a genus in the tortoise family of turtles
- [Testudo formation](/source/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](/source/Chelys) harp, involving a sound-box made from a tortoise shell
- Testudo, an obsolete constellation now in the constellation of [Pisces](/source/Pisces_(constellation)#Asterisms_and_subdivision)

## See also

- [Tortoise (disambiguation)](/source/Tortoise_(disambiguation))
- [tetsudō](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%89%84%E9%81%93) (鉄道) - Japanese word for “railway”

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