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What does frons mean?

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  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 frons is the area below or between the antennae and above the clypeus. Generally it lies between the genal or "cheek" areas on either side of the head.
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The stage was enlarged both in length and in depth and gained a monumental scaenae frons with three entrances.
Face silver pruinose, frons and vertex red-gold pruinose, mystax brown, ocellar macrosetae red-brown.
Most of these stanzas admit of being looked upon as tripartite on account of the bipartite structure of the frons.
More than one-half of a partial exuvial head must be present to be counted and must include the entire frons.
Here the frons is connected with the cauda, which recurs in each stanza as a kind of refrain, by means of concatenatio.
If the frons precedes the versus, the same distinctions, of course, are possible between the two chief parts.

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