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
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
The posteroinferior vomerine process extends directly posteriorly and then angles sharply posterodorsally, enclosing an elliptical vomerine fenestra.
From Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor Gunther by William E. Duellman
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 William B. Stallcup
The frontal and its septo-maxillary process surround the olfactory fenestra.
From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by John Wellman
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
The openings for the internal nares, the ventral orbital fenestrae, and the subtemporal fossae are readily recognized.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
After the appearance of temporal fenestrae, selection for the classical factors is quite acceptable to explain the further development of fenestration.
From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Richard C. Fox
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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