Frons

Word FRONS
Character 5
Hyphenation ‖Frons
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Definitions and meanings of "Frons"

What do we mean by frons?

The anterior part of the head of an insect, lying above the clypeus. noun

The forehead. noun

The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex. noun

The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex. noun

In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

The front part of the epicranium or head capsule of many insects; generally speaking the frons is the area below or between the antennae and above the clypeus. Generally it lies between the genal or "cheek" areas on either side of the head.

(of Diptera) the postfrons

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The word "frons" in example sentences

Its happy demeanour comes from the "frons" - the frontal area of an insect's head above the mouth parts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In fact, it's just the colorful markings on the "frons," or frontal head and mouth parts, of the female Southern Hawker Aeshna cyanea that makes it look that way, experts told The Daily Telegraph Saturday. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A high brow like unto the bright heavens, coeli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of vermilion colour, in which love lodgeth; [4914] Amor qui mollibus genis puellae pernoctas: a coral lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which ❋ Unknown (2007)

They reveal our thoughts, and as they say, frons animi index, but the eye of the countenance, [4978] Quid procacibus intuere ocellis? ❋ Unknown (2007)

If you are into woven palm frons ? you can get baskets in the Market Place but there are roadside stands where they weave and sell them also. ❋ Unknown (2007)

However, the most important result of the excavation in this area was the discovery of a foundation fill, which made it possible to date the building of scaenae frons in the Severan period, between A.D. 180 and 210, while the small foundation trench of the outer wall suggests a start of construction in late Hadrianic times. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The interior scaenae frons (stage facade), however, seems to have been added in its current state in the Severan period (late second-early third century A.D.). ❋ Unknown (2003)

Their first aim was to find the original level of the stage wall (scaenae frons) and of the podium inside the complex, a goal that was reached towards the end of the week. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Most of them seem to originate from collapsed parts of the semicircular back wall, whereas some decorated blocks such as fluted friezes and parts of door lintels jambs probably belonged to the stage wall (scaenae frons). ❋ Unknown (2003)

A second goal is to further expose the western section of the "scaenae frons" (interior façade of the stage building). ❋ Unknown (2003)

Different sizes of fluted architrave-frieze blocks, discovered in the southern area close to the stage, are almost certainly the scarce remains of the scaenae frons and suggest it was made up of 3 levels, which was not unusual for covered theatres of this size in the Roman Empire. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A rather plain rectangular cornice block broken into six pieces and worked on three sides may have belonged to an aedicula (a tabernacle formed by projecting columns) from the upper part of the scaenae frons (the stage building's inner facade). ❋ Unknown (2003)

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