Usually means: Middle section of an insect.
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  1. thoraxes: Merriam-Webster
  2. thoraxes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thoraxes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. thoraxes: Vocabulary.com
  5. thoraxes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. thoraxes: Wiktionary
  7. thoraxes: Dictionary.com
  8. Thoraxes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. thoraxes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. thoraxes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. thoraxes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Thoraxes: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. thoraxes: Medical dictionary
  4. Thoraxes: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (thorax)

noun:  (anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.
noun:  (entomology and arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.
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