[ad. L. fenestrāt-us, pa. pple. of fenestrāre, f. FENESTRA.]
1. Having small perforations or openings like a window. Chiefly Bot. and Zool.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 21. The … phragma has a slit in its centre, and is said to be fenestrate.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 514. Parietes fenestrate.
1860. Balfour, Man. Bot., § 555. The replum … sometimes exhibits perforations, becoming fenestrate.
1874. M. Cooke, Fungi (1875), vi. 132. The sporidia in Hysterium proper are usually coloured, often multiseptate, sometimes fenestrate, and occasionally of considerable size.
2. Entom. = FENESTRATED 3.
1842. in Brande.
