Word.ws English Dictionary

fenestrate

fenestrate adjective: fenestrated.

Adjective

fenestrate (comparative more fenestrate, superlative most fenestrate)

  1. fenestrated
  2. Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated.
    • fenestrate membranes
    • fenestrate fronds
  3. Having transparent spots, like the wings of certain butterflies.

Verb

fenestrate (third-person singular simple present fenestrates, present participle fenestrating, simple past and past participle fenestrated)

  1. To cut an opening into.

Noun

fenestrate (plural fenestrates)

  1. Any extinct bryozoan in the order Fenestrida (also known as Fenestrata).
    Synonyms:
    fenestrid

Synonyms of fenestrate

Forms of fenestrate

Adjective
comparativemore fenestrate
superlativemost fenestrate
Verb
third-person singular presentfenestrates
present participlefenestrating
past participlefenestrated
pastfenestrated
Noun
pluralfenestrates

Origin of fenestrate

Borrowed from Latin fenestrātus, perfect passive participle of fenestrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from fenestra (“window”).

Back-formation from Fenestrata, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Words formed from fenestrate

Questions about fenestrate

What does fenestrate mean?
Fenestrate means fenestrated.
What part of speech is fenestrate?
Fenestrate can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

Words near fenestrate in the dictionary

  1. fenestral
  2. fenestrals
  3. fenestrane
  4. fenestranes
  5. fenestras
  6. fenestrate
  7. fenestrated
  8. fenestrately
  9. fenestrates
  10. fenestrating
  11. fenestration

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fenestrate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fenestrate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fenestrate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.