fenestral, fenestrate

[Lat. fenestral is, from fe nestra a window.] *I. Ord . Lang .: Of or pertaining to a window. "The sepulchral and fenestral inscriptions of the several parishes."- Bp . Nicholson: Eng . Historical Library . II. Technically : Fenestral. (Little Wenham Hall.) 1. Bot .: Applied to leaves in which there is only a net-work of filamentous-like cells formed, the spaces between which are not filled with parenchyma, thus leaving openings. "The replum consists of two lamellæ. It sometimes exhibits perforations, becoming fenestrate."-Balfour: Botany, § 555. 2. Entom .: A term applied to the naked hyaline transparent spots on the wings of butterflies. fě-něs'trāt-ěd, a. [Lat. fenestra tus , pa. par. of fenestro=to furnish with windows; fenestra a window.] IMG:content-1545.png:[blocks in formation] arteries, in which it presents a homogeneous membrane, the meshes of which appear as simple per for a tions.