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
Along the posterior edge of the orbital fenestra, there is a narrow, dorsally projecting flange of the pterygoid.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
The spelling looks British, and the ancient British borrowed a good many words direct from the Latin, ffenstr for example, from fenestra, for window, doubtless a new idea to them.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
The most posterior point of origin is immediately dorsal to the posterior end of the ilioischiatic fenestra.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by William B. Stallcup
Corrupt: I suppose the meaning to be that the king saw the woman out of his window: camera or fenestra is wanted.
From Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
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
Selective pressures causing the inception of temporal fenestrae differed from those causing the continued expansion of the fenestrae.
From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Richard C. Fox
The trabeculae are united together by these thickened internodes, and the result is a fenestrated septum, which in older septa may become solid and aporose by continual deposit of calcite in the fenestrae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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
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