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How to pronounce plastron in English?

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Type Words
Type of pad
Type Words
Type of egis, breastplate, aegis
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Type of shirtfront
Type Words
Type of shirtfront
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Type of exoskeleton

Examples of plastron

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The plastron of the male looks slightly concave while the female's is flat.
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The male also has a plastron that is curved inwards to aid reproduction.
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Sea turtles have a carapace and plastron of bone and cartilage which is developed from their ribs.
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Another way is the plastron, which is concave in the male and flat or slightly convex in the female.
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The necks of the cows are embellished with a kind of plastron, some of the cows are depicted as wearing decorative robes.
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Underneath, the turtle's plastron is hued yellow.
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The clownfish plastron necklace, for instance, took 750 hours to produce and has a total of 2,160 individually set stones.
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The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge.
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The plastron of a female tortoise often has a noticeable V-shaped notch below the tail which facilitates passing the eggs.
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More examples
  • 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
  • (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
  • The plastron is the nearly flat part of the shell structure of a turtle or tortoise, what one would call the belly, similar in composition to the carapace; with an external layer of horny material divided into plates called scutes and an underlying layer of interlocking bones.
  • The shell covering the underside (bottom) of a turtle or other animal
  • An armor metal breastplate or the fur front of the sideless surcoat worn by medieval ladies.
  • The ventral part (bottom) of the shell of a turtle or tortoise shell