supraorbital ridge

1. 1.

   a ridge on the frontal bone above the eye socket

   Synonymssupraorbital torussuperciliary ridgesuperciliary arch

   Broaderridge

Questions about supraorbital ridge

What does supraorbital ridge mean?

supraorbital ridge means "a ridge on the frontal bone above the eye socket".

What is another word for supraorbital ridge?

Close synonyms include supraorbital torus, superciliary ridge, superciliary arch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is supraorbital ridge a common word?

supraorbital ridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.