Meaning & use
Genal
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Relating to the cheek, especially the cheek region of an insect's head (the "gena") or, in vertebrate anatomy, the cheek area of the skull.
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Entomologists use the genal spines of certain beetles to distinguish between closely related species.
The fossil skull showed a distinctive genal ridge running beneath the eye socket.
A note on using this word
"Genal" comes from the Latin "gena," meaning cheek, and appears frequently in entomology and paleontology when describing head structures.
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cheek-related
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