Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FRONS

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Definitions of FRONS

1. (anatomy) In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
2. (entomology) 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.
3. (entomology) (of Diptera) The postfrons.

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Examples of Using FRONS in a Sentence

• In ancient Rome, the stage area in front of the scaenae frons (equivalent to the Greek skene) was known as the pulpitum, and the vertical front dropping from the stage to the orchestra floor, often in stone and decorated, as the proscaenium, again meaning "in front of the skene".
• The genus name Sternula is a diminutive of Sterna, 'tern', while the specific name albifrons is from Latin albus, 'white', and frons, 'forehead'.
• Palladio had illustrated Daniele Barbaro's Italian translation of Vitruvius' ; the prints for this edition include floor plans for Roman theatres and an elevation for the scaenae frons of Vicenza's ruined Roman theatre, the Teatro Berga.
• The excavations in the major theatre unearthed the lowest marble seat rows as well as inscribed architraves with decorated friezes from the scaenae frons.
• In bird anatomy, the crown is the top of the head, or more specifically the zone from the frons, or forehead, extending posteriorly to the occiput and laterally on both sides to the temples.
• The design of this central aediculum-like, niche of the upper level is similar to the architecture of the scaenae frons (façade of ancient stage buildings) and highly evocative of the representations of aedicula in wall painting of the 2nd Pompeian style.
• The front of the head has two orange markings, one on the frons and a smaller one on the clypeus, the sclerite just above the mouthparts.
• Much attention has been paid to the allusions to stage painting (scenae frons) in the Villa Poppaea frescoes, particularly those in Room 23.
• The labrum is broad, and the frons and the hinder part of the clypeus are fused and form a bulge in a manner unusual for cockroaches.
• The upper part of the frons, above the ptilinal suture (known as the frontal vitta) is lightly sclerotized and lacks setae, while the lower part of the frons and the dorsal area of the head tends to be much more heavily sclerotized and setaceous.
• The frons is broad, with two pairs of frontal bristles; the upper pair is always reclinate, while the lower pair may sometimes be decussate.
• a nine-line stanza containing one quatrain with internal rhyme and a tail-rhymed cauda, rhyming AAAABCCCB; or, a thirteen-line stanza containing a cross-rhymed octet frons, a tercet cauda with tail-rhymes, the whole rhyming ABABABABCDDDC.
• Later, after it had been given in 1681 to Louis XIV to decorate the Galerie des Glaces of Versailles, further excavations were made in the area of the theatre's scenae frons, but no further fragments were found.
• A raking geison ran along the top edge of a pediment, on a temple or other structure such as the aedicula of a scaenae frons (theater stage building).
• Apart from Thérondels itself, the commune includes several other villages and hamlets: Le Bousquet, Campheyt, Casternac, Douzalbats, Faliès, Fieux, Frons, Gorse, Jou, Ladignac, Laussac, Longvieux, Mandilhac, Le Meyniel, Nigresserre, and Pervilhergues.
• Postvertical bristles and ocellar bristles are absent, there are two orbital bristles on each side of frons, the anterior orbital bristle directed forward and towards median line.
• Female: frons with white dust spots, the undusted area extending as a black Y- shape into the yellow part.
• pensylvanica can be identified by a spotted mark on the frons below the antenna, a slender aedeagus, and a denser apical region of tergum 7.
• Palpi slender and closely appressed to frons, where the third joint reaching just above vertex of head.
• Palpi obliquely porrect (extending forward), reaching beyond the frons, where the second joint is heavily hairy.
• Females resemble female Melanostoma scalare, sharing similar triangular tergite markings, but have a shiny, black frons, which separates them from M.
• Palpi porrect (extending forward), where the second joint thickly scaled and reaching beyond the frons.
• Head smooth-scaled, rather long and narrow caused by the large and bent scales on the vertex; frons distinctly lighter than vertex, from vertex to neck tufts often a median and/or two lateral white lines; antenna three-quarters to four-fifths of the length of forewing, often slightly serrate distally, and generally with a white, often partly interrupted, anterior line and several white sections in the apical part; labial palpus cylindrical, porrect, apical segment strongly angled upwards and often reaching well above the head.
• The front or frons in female is yellow pilose below, on the sides lightly pollinose above, clothed with black pile.
• Their palpi are slender and closely appressed (flattened down) to the frons, where the third joint is naked and reaching just above vertex of head.

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