n. pl. tor·sos or tor·si (-sē) 1. The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk. 2. A statue of the human body with the head and limbs omitted or removed. 3. A truncated or unfinished thing. [Italian, trunk of a statue, from Old Italian, stalk, stem, from Vulgar Latin *tursus, from Latin thyrsus, stalk; see THYRSUS.] |
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