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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

anatomy, body, bones, carcass, clay, clod, corpus, figure, flesh, form, frame, hulk, material body, person, physical body, physique, soma, trunk

Dictionary Results for torso:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

torso
    n 1: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
         their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk,
         body]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Torso \Tor"so\, n.; pl. E. Torsos, It. Torsi. [It. torso,
   probably fr. L. thyrsus a stalk, stem, thyrsus, Gr. ?; cf.
   OHG. torso, turso, a stalk, stem, G. dorsche a cabbage stalk.
   Cf. Thyrsus, Truss.]
   The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in
   sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and
   limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.
   [1913 Webster]

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