Definitions
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- noun The
plastron of aturtle ortortoise .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A veterinary surgeon removed the freakishly large bladder stones from a desert tortoise at the San Francisco Zoo and patched the hole in the tortoise's undershell with fiberglass, in a procedure the surgeon likened to "fixing a ding in a surfboard."
Boing Boing 2005
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Once on the table, he lifted the skoldpadda with his fingers supporting the turtle's flat undershell, giving them all a good look at it.
The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004
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Whatever weapon he used burned right through the lander's ablative tiles like they weren't there - until it got to the thin steel undershell.
Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996
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He looked at his victim for a moment, then slid the chisel under it and flopped it over on its back, slapping it twice'with the flat and cracking the undershell.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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He looked at his victim for a moment, then slid the chisel under it and flopped it over on its back, slapping it twice with the flat and cracking the undershell.
Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934
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But beheading and breaking the undershell, they all do that. "
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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But beheading and breaking the undershell, they all do that. "
Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934
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