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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of thorax.

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  • noun Plural form of thorax.

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Examples

  • When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight.

    Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab 2010

  • “Pigs make a pretty good model for Neandertal thoraces,” Churchill told LiveScience.

    Shanidar 3 | clusterflock 2009

  • Its green-eyed golden males (the females are all black) have huge perfume glands in their thoraces.

    Carpenter bee 2008

  • The interspace between the thoraces may, however, have simply been the addition of the first artist who portrayed the Maids (from imagination?); then it may be surmised that they were ectopagous twins.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The interspace between the thoraces may, however, have simply been the addition of the first artist who portrayed the

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • "Pigs make a pretty good model for Neandertal thoraces," Churchill told LiveScience.

    FOXNews.com 2009

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