melanothorax

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from scholarly Greek μελανοθώραξ (melanothṓrax), from μέλᾱς (mélās, “black”) + θώρᾱξ (thṓrāx, “corselet”). === Adjective === melanothōrāx (genitive melanothōrācis); third-declension one-termination adjective (New Latin) having a black thorax ==== Usage notes ==== Used exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus normally in the nominative singular; other inflections may be theoretical or rarely found. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== nigrithōrāx