Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
thorax .
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- noun Plural form of
thorax .
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Examples
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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.
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“Pigs make a pretty good model for Neandertal thoraces,” Churchill told LiveScience.
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Its green-eyed golden males (the females are all black) have huge perfume glands in their thoraces.
Carpenter bee 2008
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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.
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The interspace between the thoraces may, however, have simply been the addition of the first artist who portrayed the
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"Pigs make a pretty good model for Neandertal thoraces," Churchill told LiveScience.
FOXNews.com 2009
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