plastron
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Researchers have known for 20 years that a stable, underwater plastron was theoretically possible but, until now, haven't been able to show it experimentally.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
The cotton poplin plastron shirt took 11 hours to make, according to the French house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
The shell consists of the ventral surface called the plastron and the dorsal surface called the carapace, which develops from the ribs.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
It’s perfectly normal for some tortoise species to have a penis that is half the length, or more, of the plastron.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2012
Epiplastron, ep-i-plas′tron, n. the anterior lateral one of the nine pieces of which the plastron of a turtle may consist.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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