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# thorax

«thorax» in Mova's school dictionary: **the middle part of an insect's body, between the head and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a thorax, thoraxes or thoraces)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The thorax is the middle part of an insect's body, between the head and the abdomen, where the legs and wings are attached. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#m1)

2) In people and other animals with backbones, the thorax is the chest, the part of the body between the neck and the belly, holding the heart and lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils learn that every insect has three body parts — head, thorax and abdomen — and six legs joined to the thorax. Spiders are not insects: they have two body parts and eight legs. In human biology the thorax is protected by the ribcage. Phrases: «head, thorax and abdomen».

### examples

- An insect's legs are joined to its thorax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#x1)
- The bee's thorax is fuzzy and yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#x2)
- Label the head, thorax and abdomen of the ant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#x3)
- Wings grow from the thorax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#x4)
- The ribs protect the organs in the thorax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#x5)
- A spider has no separate thorax; its head and thorax are joined. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#x6)
- The beetle's thorax is shiny and hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/#x7)

### note

Plural: thoraxes (in science also thoraces). Adjective: thoracic. Trap: insects have 3 body parts and 6 legs; spiders 2 body parts (cephalothorax and abdomen) and 8 legs.

### In the corpora

- [Insects have six legs and three body parts: head, thorax and abdomen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/13/)
- [An insect's body has a head, a thorax and an abdomen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/72-insects-and-spiders/6/)
- [An insect's legs and wings are all fixed to the thorax.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/72-insects-and-spiders/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thorax» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thorax/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.