torso Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
    body; trunk.
    • they moved their arms and legs and bodies

WordNet

Tor"so noun
Etymology
It. torso, probably fr. L. thyrsus a stalk, stem, thyrsus, Gr. cf. OHG. torso, turso, a stalk, stem, G. dorsche a cabbage stalk. Cf. Thyrsus, Truss.
Wordforms
plural E Torsos It Torsi
Definitions
  1. The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

Webster 1913