frena
- plural of frenum.
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
The ovigerous frena of certain cirripedes, which have ceased to give attachment to the ova and are feebly developed, are nascent branchiae.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
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 Darwin, Charles
The only instances I have found that are not from Ovid's didactic verse are the present passage and xii 23-24 'tu bonus hortator, tu duxque comesque fuisti, / cum regerem tenera frena nouella manu'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
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 Akrigg, Mark Bear
