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
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 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 Charles Darwin
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
These cirripedes have no branchiae, the whole surface of the body and of the sack, together with the small frena, serving for respiration.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
