torso

from WordNet (r) 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}]

from 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]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "torso":
      anatomy, body, bones, carcass, clay, clod, corpus, figure, flesh,
      form, frame, hulk, material body, person, physical body, physique,
      soma, trunk

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