thorax
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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
Like the Red Queen’s bewildered servants in Alice in Wonderland, the genes scurry about to enact the instructions—build a thorax, make a wing—but in the wrong places or at the wrong times.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
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
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
A great sigh, long drawn and sibilant, which for the last five minutes had been swelling 57 little thoraxes, burst out and filled the space of the lecture hall at the Museum of Fine Arts.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
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