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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, the prothorax, bearing the fore leg or manus; the anterior segment of the thorax or trunk, with which the head articulates. Compare
alitrunk , and seemanus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See
insect .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun insects, anatomy The anterior segment of the
thorax in insects.
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