Definitions for frons

frons frons

Spelling: [fronz]
IPA: /frɒnz/

Frons is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in frons (fnors).

Definitions for frons

noun

  1. the upper anterior portion of the head of an insect, above or behind the clypeus.

Origin of frons

1855-60; New Latin, Latin frōns forehead, front

Examples for frons

Decipit / frons prima multos—First appearances deceive many.

Poetry, p. 25, which is of similar structure, we find the doubling of the frons.

The shorter, Septenary part of the stanza represents the frons, the tail-rhyme stanza, the versus.

Most of these stanzas admit of being looked upon as tripartite on account of the bipartite structure of the frons.

Those parts which lie on the outside of the posterior half of the eyes, between which the frons and Vertex intervene.

In many stanzas the first and the last part (frons and cauda) are anisometrical.

They are, however, found already in Provenal poetry, and consist of the forehead (frons) and the tail or veer (cauda).

If the frons precedes the versus, the same distinctions, of course, are possible between the two chief parts.

Here the frons is connected with the cauda, which recurs in each stanza as a kind of refrain, by means of concatenatio.

In the first place may be mentioned those which have parallel arrangement of rhymes, and in which the frons is isometrical.

Word Value for frons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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