plastron

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
2. isim A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
3. isim A man's shirt-bosom.
4. isim An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.

   “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.”

5. isim A breastplate.

   “"Why, compared to what thou wast, Hugo, thou art as a deerskin coat to a steel plastron.-- Art thou not in love, man? Answer me!" "Something like, I fear me, beau sire,” replied the squire.”

6. isim A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.

   “The plastron of a diving beetle is not directly a source of oxygen, but acts as a gill, acquiring oxygen from the surrounding water.”