plastron

Meaning of plastron

noun
  1. The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
  2. A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
  3. A man's shirt-bosom.
  4. An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
  5. A breastplate.
  6. 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.

Information about plastron

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of plastron is: plastrons.
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Hyphenation of plastron

plas-tron

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • plastron is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with plastron

tron, Catron, Imatron, Prostatron, Thyratron, Vitatron, anatron, archpatron, balatron, betatron, bevatron, copatron, diatron, duodynatron, dynatron, empatron, hexatron, latron, matron, megatron, natron, negatron, patron, pentatron, permatron, phanatron, resnatron, rhumbatron, salnatron, satron, seatron, sigmatron, skiatron, subpatron, tevatron, theatron, thyratron, trigatron, Actron, Polyplectron, Spectron, antielectron, coelectron, electron, gigaelectron, immunoelectron, interelectron, kiloelectron, multielectron, nectron

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