A female tortoise has a flat plastron.
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Plastron
//ˈplæstɹən//
Synonyms for "plastron"
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8 translations across 4 languages.
Italian
1 entries- piastrone noun (part of the shell structure of a tortoise)
Polish
4 entries- plastron noun (part of the shell structure of a tortoise)
- plastron noun (fencing)
- plastron noun (men's shirt)
- plastron noun (breastplate)
Portuguese
1 entries- plastrão noun (part of the shell structure of a tortoise)
Russian
1 entries- пластро́н noun (part of the shell structure of a tortoise)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
There are three words engraved on the bridge of the plastron of this turtle.
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The great tortoise that in myth is said to support the world and is thus an embodiment of the galaxy, without whose swirling order we would be a lonely wanderer in space, is supposed to have revealed in ancient times the Universal Rule, since lost, by which one might always be sure of acting rightly. Its carapace represented the bowl of heaven, its plastron the plains of all the worlds.
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I bought here a wedding dress perhaps twenty or thirty years old [...] a sequin plastron to be worn over the womb as a feminine equivalent to a cod-piece, and a gauze veil embroidered in purple and gold.
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