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thorax

[thawr-aks, thohr-] / ˈθɔr æks, ˈθoʊr- /




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They’re mostly black except for yellow splotches on the top of their thorax and heads.

From Seattle Times Dec. 24, 2023

Some drones got little paper tags containing an individual code as well as a code for the orientation on the thorax.

From Science Daily Oct. 11, 2023

Then the researchers studied each specimen directly and took a piece of its thorax for DNA sequencing.

From Scientific American Mar. 8, 2023

Another intern taught her how to spread the jam evenly, monitor the drying process, then use tweezers to assemble the head, thorax, abdomen and wings.

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2023

One embryonic segment becomes the second section of the thorax and grows two wings.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

They take such a liking to this fare that, in two or three weeks, the floor of the cage is a knacker's yard strewn with heads and empty thoraces, with torn-off wings and disjointed legs.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The Greeks made thoraces of hide, hemp, linen, or twisted cord.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

Three dots, each a different color, on the bees’ minuscule thoraxes before releasing them again.

From New York Times Oct. 16, 2021

There is a family of native sweat bees with shiny green thoraxes, but the rest of their anatomy does not match Dickinson’s description.

From Slate May 17, 2016

To that end, he and his colleagues glued tiny radio transmitters to the thoraxes of worker bees.

From Economist Mar. 28, 2012

Listen carefully and you can almost hear the sound of thoraxes cracking open and fairy-winged wasps being born.

From Scientific American Feb. 16, 2012

All had reddish brown abdomens, with darker thoraxes and white or black heads.

From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William




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