fenestra
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In most meat-eating dinosaurs, a ridge of bone provides a roof over an opening in the skull in front of the eye sockets known as the antorbital fenestra.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2020
It is in the window of a fenestra.
From Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein
Neckam, writing in that century, refers to the usefulness of the Vine when trained against the wall-front: "Pampinus latitudine suâ excipit æris insultus, cum res ita desiderat, et fenestra clementiam caloris solaris admittat."
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
Pueri walking by the house Saw caput in fenestra, Et sunt morati for a while To see quis erat in there.
From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Susan Paxson
The pars posticus originates by a broad, flat tendon on a line across the posterior half of the membrane that covers the ischiopubic fenestra.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by William B. Stallcup
Temporal fenestrae are post-orbital openings in the skull that allow muscles to expand and lengthen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Furthermore, their supratemporal fenestrae are proportionally small and become smaller during ontogeny.
From Scientific American ● May 24, 2012
Torosaurus’s is larger and flatter, with two large circular holes called fenestrae on either side of it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2012
Five fenestrae below each mouth; numerous branching bands on the back of the cell.
But besides the fenestrae, there is, in some cases, a small central opening which does penetrate through the wall.
The usual explanation, which makes insertas an epithet transferred by a sort of hypallage from Luna to fenestras, is extremely violent, and makes the word little more than a repetition of se fundebat.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
