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

Pueri walking by the house Saw caput in fenestra, Et sunt morati for a while To see quis erat in there.

From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan

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

It is in the window of a fenestra.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude

Donasti, Lupe, rus sub urbe nobis; sed rus est mihi maius in fenestra.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.