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Foveate, Foveolate. — Having deep depressions 

 which narrow towards the bottom. Possessed 

 of fovese. (L. fovea.) . 



Fractae. — (Antennas.) Broken. (L. jractns, from 

 frango, to break.) See Geniculate. 



Fractate. — (Antenna?.) Having one joint, usually 

 the second from the base, very long, and the 

 remaining joints attached to it at an angle. 

 Bent with an elbow as if broken. (L. fractus.) 



Free. — (Head.) When it is distinctly visible, 

 never covered by the thorax. fM.E. fre ; 

 A.S. freo, -J-, Ger. frei.) 



Free. — Unrestrained in articulated movement, not 

 soldered at the point of contact. (E., M.E. fre ; 

 A.S. freo, -j~, Ger. frei.) 



Free Pupae. — Pupre which have the appendages and 

 limbs free, and not fused to the outer case ; 

 for example, pupae of the beetles, lace-wing flies, 

 caddis-flies, ants, wasps, and bees. (M.E. fre, 

 and L. pupa. 



Frons. — The front, forehead, or brow ; that portion 

 of the head between the posterior margin of the 

 clypeus between the eyes, to where the head 

 commences to be flattened out. That part of 

 the facies which lies behind the postnasus and 

 usually between the posterior part of the eyes. 

 The part of the skull between the orbits and the 

 vertex. (L. frons, frontis, the forehead.) 



Front. — The fore-face, bounded by the eyes and 

 the vertex, and often beneath by the epistoma 

 or the clypeus. (L. frontis.) 



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