English Dictionary

plastron

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈplæstɹən/

名詞

The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace. / (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.

日本語の意味

カメなどの亀の甲羅の下部に位置し、カラパスに類似するほぼ平らな部分 / フェンシングで、保護のためジャケットの下に着用される半分のジャケット

The museum's conservation team carefully documented the tortoise's plastron to monitor wear and healing after the surgery.

博物館の保存チームは、手術後の摩耗や回復を監視するために陸亀の腹甲を注意深く記録した。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.

意味（3）

A man's shirt-bosom.

意味（4）

An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.

I bought here a wedding dress perhaps twenty or thirty years old … a sequin plastron to be worn over the womb as a feminine equivalent to a cod-piece, and a gauze veil embroidered in purple and gold.

意味（5）

A breastplate.

Why, compared to what thou wast, Hugo, thou art as a deerskin coat to a steel plastron.-- Art thou not in love, man? Answer me! "Something like, I fear me, beau sire,” replied the squire.

意味（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.

plastrons （ plural ）