Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of beetles, giving name to the family Proceridæ, containing a number of east European and west Asiatic species, found on forest-covered mountain-slopes. These beetles resemble Carabus, but differ in having the anterior tarsi simple in both sexes.
- noun [lowercase; pl. proceri (-rī).] A pyramidal muscle on the bridge of the nose, more fully called
procerus nasi and pyramidalis nasi. Seepyramidalis .
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- noun anatomy A triangular
muscle between the top of thenose and theeyebrows .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is a man of medium size (statura procerus, mediocris et spectabilis); he has a venerable aspect, and his beholders can both fear and love him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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How admirably executed are your Macropoma, the Ophiopris procerus, Mantell's great beast, the minute details of the Dercetis, Psammodus, ... the skeletons ...
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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Macropoma, the Ophiopris procerus, Mantell's great beast, the minute details of the Dercetis, Psammodus, ... the skeletons ...
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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Common form of furrows include crow's feet, which appears around the eyes due to smiling and activity of the eyelid muscles; worry lines, that emerges on the forehead due to contraction of the frontalis muscle when raising the eyebrows; and, frown lines which develops between the eyebrows due to contraction of corrugator supercilii muscles and procerus muscle when angry or concentrating.
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Common form of furrows include crow's feet, which appears around the eyes due to smiling and activity of the eyelid muscles; worry lines, that emerges on the forehead due to contraction of the frontalis muscle when raising the eyebrows; and, frown lines which develops between the eyebrows due to contraction of corrugator supercilii muscles and procerus muscle when angry or concentrating.
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Understory plants include salmonberry (Rubus parviflorus), thimbleberry (Rubus spectabilis), blackberry (both the native Rubus ursinus, and non-natives Rubus procerus and Rubus lacianata), salal (Gaultheria shallon), evergreen huckleberry (Vaccineum ovatum), red huckleberry (Vaccineum parvifolium), and Pacific sword fern (Polystichum munitum).
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008
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Richard II., while still alive, has graven on his tomb that he was "corpore procerus."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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