Definitions for forebrain

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forebrain fore·brain

Spelling: [fawr-breyn, fohr-]

IPA: /ˈfɔrˌbreɪn, ˈfoʊr-/

Forebrain is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 378 anagrams from letters in forebrain (abefinorr).

Definitions for forebrain

noun

1. Also called prosencephalon. the anterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate, or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue including the diencephalon and telencephalon.
2. the telencephalon.

Origin of forebrain

First recorded in 1875-80; fore- + brain

Examples for forebrain

He jerked his mind away suddenly from the thoughts which had crowded into his forebrain.

Autopsies on imbeciles show an infantile development of the forebrain.

The molecules mingle with the molecules of serum: In seconds they are washed against the cell-walls of the forebrain.