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alitrunk (s) (noun), alitrunks (pl)
The thorax, or the section of the body of an insect: The alitrunk is positioned in an insect where the legs and wings are connected and which is joined with the first segment of the abdomen.
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alitrunk (s) (noun), alitrunks (pl)
In zoology, the segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax; mesosoma: The alitrunk is found in the higher Hymenoptera, including the true thorax and (fused anteriorly to the thorax) the first abdominal segment.
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mesosoma, alitrunk
The middle of the three major divisions of the insect body.

In most insects, it is the strict equivalent of the thorax; but in the higher hymenoptera, it includes the propodeum (first abdominal segment of hymenopterans, fused to the thorax).

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