How To Use Plastron In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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The underneath of any tortoise's carapace is called the plastron and it's unique, like a fingerprint.
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Just wondering if the plastron is the modern reincarnation of the colonial stomacher?
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In addition, the carapace and plastron of each turtle were photographed.
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-- 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
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No tortoise had sufficient wear to the carapace or plastron to obscure annuli.
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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.
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Objective : To identify the commercial Chinese medicines turtle shell and tortoise plastron.
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This leaves out of account the eight live musicians, whose sound is amplified so as to move directionally around the circular auditorium; Carl Fillion's Buckminster Fuller-inspired "skeletal substructure of a huge turtle," a latticed dome that supports all sorts of gymnastic maneuvres; the projections onto the plastron underside of the "turtle," which culminate in projections of swimmers, who then appear to emerge from it — in person, as it were.
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Also, most specimens are molts, based on thickness of the carapace and posterior displacement of the sternal plastron.
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To date, more than 20 specimens of D. australis have been collected at this locality, all within galleries and with dislocated plastrons.
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The plastron is often reduced and cruciform in shape and may be hinged.
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The plastrons of all hatchlings were photocopied for future identification and hatchling body masses and straight-line carapace lengths were recorded.
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Counter-shading of the shell conceals the turtle from predators, making it difficult to distinguish the dark carapace from the sea floor and the light plastron from the lighter sky.
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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.
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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
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The belly was covered by a shell, the so-called plastron, in pretty much the same way as that of a modern sea turtle.
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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.
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For example, the plastron is a feature involved in important evolutionary changes during the early spatangoid history and underlies a distinct pattern of disparity.
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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.
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The removable wheels were secured by a velcro strip epoxied to her plastron.
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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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Insects living here can usually rely on gills, plastrons, or cuticular respiration to meet their metabolic demand for oxygen.
