Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The third lateral piece of the plastron of a turtle: applied by Huxley (“Anat. Vert.,” p. 174) to what others call hyposternum. See second cut under
Chelonia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also
hyposternum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The third
lateral plate in theplastron ofturtles .
Etymologies
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hypo- + plastron
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