[ad. L. fenestrāl-is, f. fenestra; see FENESTRA.]
1. Of or pertaining to a window.
1674–81. in Blount, Glossogr.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 699. Collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions.
1696–9. Bp. W. Nicolson, Eng. Hist. Libr., II. 145. Anth. Wood Collected the … Fenestral Inscriptions … in the County of Oxford.
1776. R. Graves, Euphrosyne, I. iv. On almost every occasion of human life: Panegyrical and Satyrical; Humorous and Amorous; Moral and Monumental! in short Comical and Coxcomical; Culinary and Œconomical; Fenestral, Parietal, and what not.
2. Anat. and Surg. ‘Having small openings like windows’ (Wagstaffe). Fenestral bandage, ‘a bandage, compress, or plaster with small perforations or openings to facilitate discharge’ (Dunglison). Cf. FENESTRATE v.
3. Biol. a. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a fenestra. b. Furnished with fenestræ.
1865. Gosse, Land & Sea (1874), 156. The sarcode is of an olive colour, which forms pseudopodia, that project through the fenestral apertures.
