ppl. a. [f. L. fenestrāt-us (see prec.) + -ED1.]
1. Arch. Furnished with windows.
1849. Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, etc., 183/2. Astylar and fenestrated ought … to be merely convertible terms; but as they are not, that of columnar fenestrated has been invented, to denote that mode of composition which unites fenestration with the semblance, at least, of the other.
In mod. Dicts.
2. In scientific use: Pierced with a hole or with holes; perforated. ‘Fenestrated membrane (Anat.): that form of the elastic tissue of the middle or contractile coat of the arteries, in which it presents a homogeneous membrane the meshes of which appear as simple perforations’ (Hoblyn, 1868).
1849–53. R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, IV. 1370/1. Fenestrated membrane.
1865. Gosse, Land & Sea, 156. The shells [of Polycystina] are siliceous…. Their walls beautifully fenestrated with large angular or circular perforations.
1878. Bell, Gegenbauer’s Comp. Anat., 476. The coracoid … is not unfrequently fenestrated.
1886. Guillemard, Cruise of Marchesa, II. 188. Fleshy, fenestrated leaves.
3. Entom. Having transparent spots.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), III. xxxii. 301. The male Locustæ have a fenestrated ocellus.
