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

This encloses an open space or "fenestra," so that the neck was not completely protected above.

From Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by Osborn, Henry Fairfield

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

Vireo olivaceous, the origin of this muscle does not extend the length of the ischiopubic fenestra.

From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.