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luggage, swimwear, anatomy, and arboreal plumbing all shoved into one overworked word
means Trunks are the main woody stem of a tree, large sturdy boxes for storage or travel, swimming shorts worn by men, or an elephant's long flexible nose — among other senses sharing the same word.
from All these trunks trace back to Latin 'truncus,' meaning the trunk of a tree or a body stripped of its limbs (the same root that gives us 'truncate'). It traveled through Old French 'tronc' into English. The tree-stem and the human torso came first; the storage chest likely earned the name because early ones were made from hollowed-out tree trunks. The elephant's trunk is a playful extension of the same image — a thick, tree-like appendage. The swimwear sense is the youngest of the bunch, short for swimming trunks, named because they cover the trunk of the body.
- elephant power
- contains around 40,000 muscles and zero bones
- car origin
- named after actual travel trunks strapped onto early cars
- tree job
- a single trunk can pump hundreds of gallons daily
- boxing roots
- shorts called trunks since fighters dropped knee-length britches
- elephant snorkel
- trunks let swimming elephants breathe like living periscopes
trunks dragon ball z — character from the anime who travels back in time to warn of androids, first appearing in 1992
elephant trunk — appendage with 40,000 muscles used by elephants in africa and asia for manipulation and breathing
tree trunks — woody stems of plants worldwide, some like coast redwoods in california exceed 350 feet tall