Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for interorbital. Search instead for Otter+Habitat.

interorbital

American  
[in-ter-awr-bit-uhl] / ˌɪn tərˈɔr bɪt əl /

adjective

  1. Anatomy. located between the two eye sockets, or orbits.

  2. Astronomy. being or situated between the orbits.


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Denmark's Niels Bohr ingeniously yoked classical laws and quantum laws to predict the probable interorbital jumps of electrons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Females have a distinct interorbital triangle and dark brown blotches on the thighs and shanks.

From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by león, Juan R.

Selected cranial measurements are: Basilar length, 44.1; zygomatic breadth, 32.4; postpalatal length, 26.6; least interorbital breadth, 13.8; height of cranium, 16.0.

From An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico by Bernardo Villa R.

Diagnosis.—Rostral keel absent; nuptial spines in males small; interorbital region much wider than eyelid.

From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.

The broad interorbital flanges result in a relatively broad external interorbital distance.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "interorbital" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com