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Definition of Fenestrate
1. a. Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.
Definition of Fenestrate
1. Adjective. fenestrated ¹
2. Adjective. Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated. ¹
3. Adjective. (zoology) Having transparent spots, like the wings of certain butterflies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fenestrate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Fenestrate
1. Having openings or translucent areas. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fenestrate
Literary usage of Fenestrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Leaf-blades shorter than the sheaths, finely 6-2o-fenestrate-nerved ... 1803.
shorter than the sheaths and tapering to a long Leaf-blades 6-2o-fenestrate- ..."
2. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded by the Late Captain by John MacGillivray, George Busk, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Forbes, Adam White (1852)
"A further characteristic of the fenestrate ... They probably want the outer
lamina, or have it very thin, and consequently present no fenestrate spaces, ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Plant more or less hirsute; pod entire-margined, fenestrate, or with thin round
areas. 2. T. elegans. Plant glabrous; pod toothed, rarely with fenestrations ..."
4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1877)
"The authors were not able to follow out the development of the fenestrate skeleton,
but doubtless it is preformed by protoplasm, they at least found that ..."
5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"415, a, a, from which circumstance it is called ' fenestrate.' This homogeneous
membrane has the property of rolling itself up in the form of a scroll, ..."
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