Plastron

What do we mean by plastron?

A metal breastplate worn under a coat of mail. noun

A quilted pad worn by fencers to protect the torso and side. noun

A trimming on the front of a bodice. noun

The front of a man's dress shirt. noun

The front panel of the tunic of a uniform, usually of a different color than the rest. noun

The ventral part of the shell of a turtle or tortoise. noun

In the Echinodermata, a space surrounded by the subanal fasciole lying beneath the anus, in spatangoid echinoids. noun

A breastplate; a garment or part of a garment covering the breast. , , , noun

In herpetology: The ventral part of the shell of a chelonian or testudinate; the lower shell, or under side of the shell, of a turtle or tortoise: more or less opposed to carapace. noun

One of the similar exoskeletal plates developed upon the under side of the body of certain Amphibia, as the Labyrinthodonta. noun

In mammalogy, the ventral shield or cuirass of the glyptodons or fossil armadillos. noun

In anatomy, the sternum with the costal cartilages attached, as removed in autopsies. noun

In ornithology, a colored area on the breast or belly of a bird, like or likened to a shield. noun

A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast. noun

An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk. noun

The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata. noun

A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist. noun

The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace. noun

A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety. noun

An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice. 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.

Words that are spelled similarly to plastron:
plastron, patron, platoon, klystron, platon, plasmon, apastron, astron, plastin, plectron, plastral, pliotron, plasson, plastrons, latron, plastein, kastron, pasotron.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word plastron:
scute, carapace, gular, blotches, notched, seams, hinge, tortoise, anteriorly, concave, turtle, blotch, suture, pectoral, bony, radiating, hinged, yellowish, domed, abdominal, uniformly, limbs, coloration, underside, ventral, shell, notch, claws, posterior, lobe, keel, anal, ribs, hind, yellow, belly, marginal, anterior, paired, jaw, neck, cream, edges, dorsal, stripes, tail, spots, darker, dark, plates, deeply, lighter, subspecies, bone, color, pale, flat, variable, pairs, bottom, varies, narrow, brown, legs, pattern, eggs, bridges, male, bridge, black, head, length, distinct, slightly, skin, allows, orange, sides, longer, grow, pair, upper, female, connected, box, front, sex, smaller, portion, highly, relatively, species, nearly, larger, lines, reduced, sometimes, lower, typically, large.

Words that rhyme with plastron:
gastrin, astron, nastran, astra in, fast run, hast run, last run, sastra in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe plastron:
sternal, yellow, hinged, concave, small, flat, actinal, large, hingeless, white, subanal, ventral, black, lower, complete, shaped, tortoise, broad, embroidered, red, blue, reduced, developed, larger, soft, chelonian, bony, fitting, hard, yellowish, entire, unmarked, brown, pointed, scarlet, strapped.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective plastron:
yellow, coloration, fer.

Consonant match to plastron:
plus strain.

Words that sound like plastron:
plastron, plastering, plastery, pastoring, plaster, plastered, blistering, plasters, blustering, plasterer, platen, platin, platon, platten, pastern, apastron, last run, peace train, pestering, blasting, patron, piston, playstation, plantain, pastoral, plasticine, plectrum, plasty, play station, passed on, pluton, petron, poston, posten, padron, plus one, platan, postern, padrone, palestra, plasticene, palaestra, pastorate, pit run, plaster saint, place down, blattering, patronne, plasterers, plectron, blaster, blistery, blustery, blasters, bass drum, baston, blasta, bastien, bluestone, blusterous, bostrom, bestrewn, blue stone, olestra, blystone, bluestem, bluestein, blason, ahlstrom, blaustein, blustrous, blue train, pattering, plantin, patrin, petrin, platting, pasturing, pastime, palestine, listerine, paster, passtime, pass time, flustering, passen, bowstring, lustrum, bastin, pasters, elastin, palestrina, pass down, lastra, lateran, pasan, blue stem, bow string, claustrum, passieren.