Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The single median and anterior one of the nine pieces of which the plastron usually consists in chelonians or turtles and tortoises: so named by Huxley to avoid the use of the more frequent name entosternum, as the plastron is not now supposed to contain any sternal elements. See
epiplastron , and cuts under carapace, Chelonia (second cut), and plastron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also
entosternum .
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- noun anatomy The
median plate of theplastron ofturtles .
Etymologies
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ento- + plastron
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