torso

The torso is the trunk or the part of the human body that doesn't include the head, arms or legs.

(noun)

An example of the torso is the shoulders down to the hips of a person.

See torso in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. torsos or torsi

the trunk of a statue of the nude human figure, esp. of such a statue lacking the head and full limbs
the trunk of the human body
any unfinished or fragmentary piece of work

Origin: It, stump, trunk of a statue < L thyrsus, a stalk, stem < Gr thyrsos, a stem, wand

See torso in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. tor·sos or tor·si (-sē)

Origin:

Origin: Italian, trunk of a statue

Origin: , from Old Italian, stalk, stem

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *tursus

Origin: , from Latin thyrsus, stalk; see thyrsus

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