Sentence examples for stinkpot from inspiring English sources

The softshell, musk, and mud turtles, meanwhile, will pursue many of the same small aquatic animals but with different preferences: the softshell hunts mainly fish and crayfish, the stinkpot eats mainly snails, insect larvae, and carrion, and the mud turtle primarily feeds on insects, mollusks, and carrion.

The stinkpot, or common musk turtle (S. odoratus), is the only member of the genus found in both the northeastern and southern United States.

A few species, such as the stinkpot, or common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus), dig a shallow nest with both the fore- and hind feet.

Weg is not the only one embracing what have often been viewed as diametrically opposed designs: the proverbial stinkpot versus the blow boat.

For example, a small lake in Georgia may be home to at least seven turtle species: snapping turtles, red-eared sliders, eastern cooters, common mud turtles, loggerhead musk turtles, stinkpots (common musk turtles), and spiny softshell turtles.

Taking my cues from my father -- a sailor and ice-boater -- I had disdained "stinkpots," the sailor's term for motorboats.

Visitors are introduced to mudpuppies (a type of salamander) and stinkpots (musk turtles), garter and rat snakes.