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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The bones constituting the head and trunk of a vertebrate body.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the part of the skeleton that includes the skull and spinal column and sternum and ribs
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