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Recent Examples of thoraxInsects have three body segments (head, thorax, and abdomen) and six legs (three pairs), while spiders have two body segments (cephalothorax and abdomen) and eight legs (four pairs).—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024 The crowning touch is a giant mosquito with a lava lamp on its thorax; the whole thing is made of a bunch of dumb American junk.—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2024 Unlike bees, which are typically fatter and fuzzier, wasps have a distinctive hourglass shape with a very thin waist where the thorax and abdomen meet.—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024 If an infected wound is identified, the ants then treat said wound with antibiotics produced by a special gland on the side of the thorax (the metapleural gland).—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for thorax
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