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.

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See torso in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. torsos or torsi

  1. the trunk of a statue of the nude human figure, esp. of such a statue lacking the head and full limbs
  2. the trunk of the human body
  3. 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)
  1. The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk.
  2. A statue of the human body with the head and limbs omitted or removed.
  3. A truncated or unfinished thing.

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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