olive ridley

noun

|Updated on: 24 Jul 2018

Definition of olive ridley

: a relatively small sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) that has a uniformly olive-colored carapace and is found along coasts and in the open sea of the tropical parts of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans — called also olive ridley turtle

Recent Examples of olive ridley from the Web

The group’s primary success has been with the olive ridley, which appears to be less affected by the trash, noise and bright lights of modern Bali.

— New York Times, "Saving Turtles in Bali, Egg by Precious Egg," 7 July 2018
In 2015, an eight-minute clip of an olive ridley sea turtle with a plastic drinking straw stuck up its nostril went viral.

— kara baskin, BostonGlobe.com, "More restaurants opt to #skipthestraw, hoping patrons will suck it up for the planet’s sake," 7 May 2018
In a blog post detailing efforts to rehabilitate the olive ridley seat turtle, aquarium personnel say Turkey ate inconsistently over the month and a half personnel worked with her.

— eder campuzano, OregonLive.com, "Turkey, the sea turtle rescued over Thanksgiving, dies at Oregon Coast Aquarium," 13 Jan. 2018
Turkey, an olive ridley, belonged to one of the two most common sea turtle species found on the Oregon coast.

— eder campuzano, OregonLive.com, "Turkey, the sea turtle rescued over Thanksgiving, dies at Oregon Coast Aquarium," 13 Jan. 2018

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