The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Three dots, each a different color, on the bees’ minuscule thoraxes before releasing them again.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
There is a family of native sweat bees with shiny green thoraxes, but the rest of their anatomy does not match Dickinson’s description.
From Slate ● May 17, 2016
To that end, he and his colleagues glued tiny radio transmitters to the thoraxes of worker bees.
From Economist ● Mar. 28, 2012
Listen carefully and you can almost hear the sound of thoraxes cracking open and fairy-winged wasps being born.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 16, 2012
M. Sanson—you know the great training man?—wanted me to sing in one of my thoraxes or glottises or oesophaguses.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
