frons
Grasshopper-head: a: antenna; b: ocelli; c: vertex; d: compound eye; e: occiput; f: gena; g: pleurostoma; h: mandible; i: labial palp; j: maxillary palps; k: maxilla; l: labrum; m: clypeus; n: frons
Meaning
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 area below or between the antennae and above the clypeus. Typically it lies between the genal or "cheek" areas on either side of the head.
- The postfrons.
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Origin
- Borrowed from Latin frōns ("the forehead, brow, front"). front.
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