means The trunk of the human body — the central mass between neck and hips, minus the head, arms, and legs.

from From Italian 'torso,' meaning a stalk or stump — the same word used for the core left after you strip a vegetable. It traces back through Latin 'thyrsus' to Greek 'thyrsos,' the leaf-and-pinecone-topped staff carried by followers of Dionysus. The leap from sacred wand to human midsection ran through art: sculptors and their workshops used 'torso' for the headless, limbless statue fragments dug from ancient ruins, and the word eventually came to name the living trunk those marble cores represented.