NOUN
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt
- the front of man's dress shirt
- a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail
- a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest
How To Use plastron In A Sentence
- To date, more than 20 specimens of D. australis have been collected at this locality, all within galleries and with dislocated plastrons.
- Insects living here can usually rely on gills, plastrons, or cuticular respiration to meet their metabolic demand for oxygen.
- The clownfish plastron necklace, for instance, took 750 hours to produce and has a total of 2,160 individually set stones. Fashion History With A Twist: The World's Most Enduring Brands
- The removable wheels were secured by a velcro strip epoxied to her plastron. Boing Boing
- As I scooped up the tortoise, it gave an indignant wheeze and swiftly retracted its limbs and head, bringing up the hinged piece of plastron that closes the brown-and-butterscotch patterned “box” of protective shell. Beginner’s Grace
- For example, the plastron is a feature involved in important evolutionary changes during the early spatangoid history and underlies a distinct pattern of disparity.
- Its underside is covered with a dense layer of very fine, silky hairs that trap air contained in the cocoon to form a thin, silvery cushion, called a plastron.
- The belly was covered by a shell, the so-called plastron, in pretty much the same way as that of a modern sea turtle. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- It can take several days to achieve full adult colour and a hard exoskeleton. breathing through a siphon replenishing the plastron cursorial legs raptorial legs natatorial legs rowing legs
- This pattern, like the pattern of the dermal bones and the pattern of the scutes and bones of the plastron (ventral shell) is remarkably consistent across all turtles, particularly extant forms.
