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Another word for torso

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Noun
      1. The thickened, usually underground base of the stem of many perennial herbaceous plants, from which new leaves and flowering stems arise.
      2. The trunk of a palm or tree fern.
      1. The part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm, partially encased by the ribs and containing the heart and lungs; the chest.
      2. A part in other vertebrates that corresponds to the human thorax.
      3. The second or middle region of the body of certain arthropods, including the insects and most crustaceans, lying between the head and the abdomen.
      1. The main woody axis of a tree.
      2. The shaft of a column.
      3. The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.
    See also:

    body

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Sentence Examples

  • His actions were far too bold, and yet the feel of his warm muscular torso was comforting.

  • Crashing into the planet left the left side of her torso black and bruised.

  • Violent scars marred her torso and arms.

  • Of the metopes also a great number of fragments have been found, together with two almost complete metopes, the one containing the torso of a nude warrior in perfect preservation, as well as ten wellpreserved heads.

  • Besides numerous fragments of nude and draped figures belonging to pedimental statues, a well-preserved and very beautiful head of a female divinity, probably Hera, as well as a draped female torso of excellent workmanship, both belonging to the pediments, have been discovered.

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