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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The collar or prothorax of an insect, which bears the anterior pair of legs: sometimes restricted to an elevated posterior portion of the prothorax, seen in many Hymenoptera and Hemiptera.
  • noun In decorative art, a necklace or collar, as of an order, represented on a figure in embroidery, goldsmiths' work, or the like.

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