Usually means: Protective lower shell of turtles.
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  1. plastron: Merriam-Webster
  2. plastron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plastron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plastron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plastron: Vocabulary.com
  6. plastron: Wordnik
  7. plastron: Wiktionary
  8. plastron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. plastron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. plastron: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Plastron, plastron: Dictionary.com
  12. Plastron (arthropod), Plastron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Plastron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. plastron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. plastron: Rhymezone
  16. plastron: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Plastron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. plastron: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. plastron: FreeDictionary.org
  20. plastron: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. plastron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. plastron: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. plastron: Encyclopedia

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  2. plastron: Medical dictionary

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  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plastron)

noun:  The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
noun:  (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
noun:  A man's shirt-bosom.
noun:  An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
noun:  A breastplate.
noun:  A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.

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