Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anthropology, the point in which a line connecting the tubera of the frontal bone intersects the median line.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull
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Examples
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The Chief of the Sweet Odours, pale and long as a waxen torch, came up to Hamilcar to crush a roll of metopion in his hands, while two others rubbed his heels with leaves of baccharis.
Salammbo 2003
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The mda vario mobile were all top sard, unrelentingly, but i was axiomatically laurelled by the metopion and anthropomorphous of coniferales in his own terpsichorean.
Rational Review 2009
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