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- noun Plural form of
thorax .
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Examples
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During a theme on insect families, their renderings of butterflies, ladybugs, flies, and other insects had heads, thoraxes, abdomens, and the correct number of legs!
Rebecca Palacios: Drawing for Young Learners Rebecca Palacios 2011
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During a theme on insect families, their renderings of butterflies, ladybugs, flies, and other insects had heads, thoraxes, abdomens, and the correct number of legs!
Rebecca Palacios: Drawing for Young Learners Rebecca Palacios 2011
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During a theme on insect families, their renderings of butterflies, ladybugs, flies, and other insects had heads, thoraxes, abdomens, and the correct number of legs!
Rebecca Palacios: Drawing for Young Learners Rebecca Palacios 2011
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During a theme on insect families, their renderings of butterflies, ladybugs, flies, and other insects had heads, thoraxes, abdomens, and the correct number of legs!
Rebecca Palacios: Drawing for Young Learners Rebecca Palacios 2011
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He thinks of the corpse, dismembered much in the same way he had dismembered insects as a boy by pulling off their limbs, one by one, before tossing their thoraxes into the trash.
The Investigator Marc Lowe 2011
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Rebellious teenage ants, their ant pants sagging low on their thoraxes, showing way too much abdomen, might need a bit more encouragement to disperse.
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How many thoraxes sent squirting through abdomens?
Thursday Only! Big Sale On Question Marks! Matthew Sanborn Smith 2008
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Flies, of course, only have legs on their thoraxes, not their abdomens where Ubx is expressed, while shrimp do have abdominal limbs.
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Even at a distance and through the mist one could see their four sets of breathing spicules pulsing methodically on their flexible b-thoraxes.
Trouble Magnet Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2006
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Horrifying and fascinating six-legged insectoid Finnish logging machine with the power to stop a thousand Loraxes without straining its thoraxes.
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