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- noun Plural form of
plastron .
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Examples
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WHITAKER: Dr. Lamm, why don ` t you go visit Burzynski and you ` ll see what the amino plastrons have done.
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They have relatively small plastrons that lack a hinge to the carapace.
Reptile families 2008
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I turned to Animal Planet, and — God or Satan will insist that something more powerful than I had planned this all along — a man was doing a voiceover explaining the many differences between land tortoises and aquatic turtles, but declaring that both depended on sturdy plastrons and carapaces.
Director's Cut 2005
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I turned to Animal Planet, and — God or Satan will insist that something more powerful than I had planned this all along — a man was doing a voiceover explaining the many differences between land tortoises and aquatic turtles, but declaring that both depended on sturdy plastrons and carapaces.
Director's Cut 2005
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I turned to Animal Planet, and — God or Satan will insist that something more powerful than I had planned this all along — a man was doing a voiceover explaining the many differences between land tortoises and aquatic turtles, but declaring that both depended on sturdy plastrons and carapaces.
Director's Cut 2005
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Elle fait des plastrons monumentaux, luisants, dur comme l'albâtre.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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Elle, blanchisseuse de fin, a développé un secret dans la façon d'empeser les plastrons de chemises.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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Elle priait les aristos du Jockey Club de donner leurs plastrons à d'autres.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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Whatever may have been said of the devotion of our countrymen to material interests, the wise and winning lips had only to speak, and such a currency of _plastrons_ and _carapaces_ was set in circulation, that the contemplative stranger who saw the mighty coinage of Chelonia flowing in upon Cambridge might well have thought that the national idea was not the Almighty Dollar, but the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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The dress consists of several petticoats of cloth plaited, red body, turned-up sleeves, and large coloured bibs or plastrons which they call
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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