Definition of fenestrate in US English:

adjective

• Having small windowlike perforations or transparent areas.

  Example sentences

  • ‘In the present study, we examine and contrast the meshwork geometries of colonies of the biserial fenestellid bryozoans with colonies of the uniserial fenestrate graptolite Dictyonema.’
  • ‘Unexpectedly primitive features include toothed adsymphysial and intercoronoid fossa with fenestrate floor.’
  • ‘Unlike fenestrate bryozoans, in fenestrate graptolites there is only one row of autozooids per branch.’
  • ‘However, comparison of these extant hemichordates with the erect, fenestrate colonies of Dictyonema is problematical.’
  • ‘Sometimes an unusual and distinctive fenestrate texture is preserved when the outer surface of the xylem is exposed.’