trunk
Part of a body.
Other meanings
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
The torso; especially, the human torso.
Synonyms
- tree trunk
A kind of
- stalk
Related words
- betrunk
- detrunk
- intrunk
- nontrunk
- pseudotrunk
- supertrunk
- trunkal
- trunkback
- trunker
- trunkfish
- trunkful
- trunkhose
Word history
From Latin "truncus" (a stock, lopped tree trunk).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “trunk” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.