"turtledom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1854, Henry David Thoreau, \"A Newly Hatched Turtle\", in Bradford Torrey, ed, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal (1906), page 33",
          "text": "It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth."
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          "ref": "1996, Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett, Turtles and Tortoises: Everything About Selection, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Behavior, page 73",
          "text": "But for a display of agility almost unparalleled in turtledom, put a small mouse in this turtle's pen, then stand back and watch.",
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          "ref": "2004, Mary Blocksma, Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor Year, page 108",
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        "The state of being a turtle, or of belonging to the world of turtles; turtles, collectively."
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  "word": "turtledom"
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