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The anterior part of an insect's thorax
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prothorax
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WordNet
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n. the anterior part of an insect's thorax; bears the first pair of legs [also: prothoraces (pl)]
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Prothorax \Pro*tho"rax\, n. [Pref. pro- + thorax.] (Zo["o]l.) The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera .
Wiktionary
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n. (context entomology English) The anterior part of the insect thorax; it carries the first pair of legs
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The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect , and bears the first pair of legs . Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum ( dorsal ), the prosternum ( ventral ), and the propleuron ( lateral ) on each ...
Usage examples of prothorax.
As soon as we started hiking up the glacier, his head came down and forward, that V between his main body section and prothorax widened, those mantis-arms stretched far forward like a human extending two poles ahead of him, and he fell into a seemingly effortless four-legged motion.
The smaller mantispid had some sort of clear, bubbly backpack along his dorsal ridge, nestled in the V where its main body section joined the prothorax.