plastron
Meanings
noun
- The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
- A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
- A man's shirt-bosom.
- An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
- A breastplate.
- A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentive of piastra (“breastplate”), from Latin emplastrum (“plaster”), from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron), from ἔμπλαστος (émplastos, “daubed, plastered”), from ἔμπλασσειν (émplassein, “to mould, form”).
Derived words
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