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Meaning of frontal bone | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity.
  2. Either of the pair of bones from which the frontal bone is formed by fusion in infancy.

Equivalents

العربية عظم جبهي
Čeština čelní kost
Deutsch Stirnbein
Eesti otsmikuluu
Suomi otsaluu
Français os frontal
Magyar homlokcsont
한국어 이마뼈
Português frontal
Русский ло́бная кость
Svenska pannben
Tiếng Việt xương trán

Examples

“The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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