thorax

Living hexapods have six walking legs, all attached to the thorax, while appendages on the abdomen have been almost completely lost.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 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

There are grasshoppers, spruce budworms, forest tent caterpillars, wood-boring beetles, each one the size of a page, their parts neatly labeled: mandibles, palps, antennae, thorax, abdomen.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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 Sutherland Menzies

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

The rustle of the bedclothes as their thoraxes rose and fell in respiration was enough to disturb them when they allowed themselves to become over-sensitive about noise.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh