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
Nullus habebit separatim mordacem pavulam ad evellendas spinas si forte calcaverit absque Præposito domus et secundo: pendeatque in fenestra in qua codices collocantur.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
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 Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
Donasti, Lupe, rus sub urbe nobis; sed rus est mihi maius in fenestra.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.
The medial border of the orbital fenestra is missing, but apparently consisted of the pterygoid for at least the posterior half.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
