Plastron

[plæstrәn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside.

(noun.) a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest.

(noun.) a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail.

(noun.) the front of man's dress shirt.

(noun.) the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt.

整理:苏西--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast.

(n.) An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.

(n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.

(n.) A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

校對:奥利弗

解釋/意思:

n. a breast-plate: a detachable part of a woman's dress hanging from the throat to the waist: a man's shirt-bosom: a fencer's wadded shield of leather worn on the breast: the ventral part of the shell of a chelonian or testudinate the lower shell of a turtle or tortoise: the sternum with costal cartilages attached.—adj. Plas′tral.

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