Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Ääntäminen

    • IPA: /ˈplæstɹən/

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

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

Esimerkit

  • I bought here a wedding dress perhaps twenty or thirty years old [...] a sequin plastron to be worn over the womb as a feminine equivalent to a cod-piece, and a gauze veil embroidered in purple and gold.
  • The plastron of a diving beetle is not directly a source of oxygen, but acts as a gill, acquiring oxygen from the surrounding water.
  • Total independence of atmospheric air is possible only if insects have a permanent gas store or incompressible gas gill, called a plastron. Unlike compressible gas stores, the volume of a plastron remains constant and it is incompressible.
  • The plastrons of other insects are generally less efficient than that of Aphelocheirus as they have a less dense hair pile from which the air is more readily displaced.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkoplastrons

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