frenum
noun
a fold of membrane that checks or restrains the motion of a part, such as the fold on the underside of the tongue.
frena
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pluralof frenum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The only food on hand for injured survivors was yogurt and sweet biscuits known locally as frena.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Tr V iv 15-16 Ovid had used frena recusare of a horse: 'fert tamen, ut debet, casus patienter amaros, / more nec indomiti frena recusat equi'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
In prose, the word is often used of young plants or farm animals; and here frena nouella may well be a metonymy for frena nouellorum equorum.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
Alternatively, the word could be equivalent to noua 'new, unfamiliar', as at Fast III 455 'iamque indignanti noua frena receperat ore'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
The Balanidae or sessile cirripedes, on the other hand, have no ovigerous frena, the eggs lying loose at the bottom of the sack, in the well-enclosed shell; but they have large folded branchiae.
From On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
