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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryIn vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex. · 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. · (of Diptera) The postfrons.
Borrowed from Latin frōns (“the forehead, brow, front”). Doublet of front.
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