plastron

How To Use plastron In A Sentence

• Elle, blanchisseuse de fin, a développé un secret dans la façon d'empeser les plastrons de chemises. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891
• In one -- the pyxis -- the plastron is furnished with a transverse hinge, so that the animal can retract its head and fore-limbs within the carapace, and close the plastron upon it, first shutting them in. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
• 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
• This bubble is then ‘caught’ by the antennae, causing the air it contains to spread through the plastron to reach the spiracles, or breathing holes, on the beetle's abdomen.
• The underneath of any tortoise's carapace is called the plastron and it's unique, like a fingerprint. Home | Mail Online
• Just wondering if the plastron is the modern reincarnation of the colonial stomacher? How Many Ways? - A Dress A Day
• In addition, the carapace and plastron of each turtle were photographed.
• -- Diagram of a vertical section of both Carapace and Plastron of a Tortoise, made transversely to the long axis of the skeleton. c, vertebral centrum; ns, neural spine which expands above into a median dorsal scute; r, rib which forms one mass with a lateral scute and terminates at a marginal plate, ic, interclavicular scute; hp, hyo-sternal scute. The Common Frog
• No tortoise had sufficient wear to the carapace or plastron to obscure annuli.
• The best dress livery is a frock coat, single-breasted, of kersey, the color of your livery; white buckskin riding breeches, top boots, top hat, white plastron, standing collar, and brown driving gloves. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men