单词 | glabella |
释义 | glabella (once / 358161 pages) n The glabella is the foremost part of the forehead that intervenes between the eyebrows. If you have a unibrow, your glabella might be hidden! If you've been at a loss to describe the phenomenon of the unibrow (also called the monobrow), you can now define it has "eyebrows joined by a growth of hair across the glabella." Glabella is a New Latin coinage that belies its reality in the unibrowed: it means "hairless." WORD FAMILYglabella USAGE EXAMPLESAnd when I did, the sharp edge of the pachyderm's trunk sliced right into my glabella. Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s(2013) Glabella, the middle or frontal protuberance of the superciliary arch. MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson), A Manual of the Antiquity of Man(2011) Peck in the Adirondacks, who supposed it to be Woodsia glabélla. Tilton, George Henry, The Fern Lover's Companion—A Guide...(2010) n a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges Syn|Hyper mesophyron craniometric point a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken |
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