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subfenestral

subfenestral adjective: beneath a window.

Adjective

subfenestral (not comparable)

  1. Beneath a window.
    • The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.
    • We even went down into the cellars, where was a vast vault filled with coal. "This puts to shame the subfenestral carbonaria of your alma mater." Every university-man knows how the coal-porter brings his sack on his shoulder, and empties the load into the hollowed-out window-seat; Forsan et haec...1829, "Dr. George Shaw," in Personal and Literary Memorials, by Henry Digby Beste
  2. Beneath a fenestra.
    • The maxilla has a slender nasal process and a long subfenestral part. […] Wellnhofer (1974) and Witmer (1997) reconstructed a fenestrate "ascending ramus" of the maxilla, as found in nonavian theropods.2002, "Archaeopterygidae", by Andrzej Elzanowski, in Mesozoic Birds, Luis M. Chiappe & Lawrence M. Witmer edd.

Origin of subfenestral

From sub- + fenestral.

Questions about subfenestral

What does subfenestral mean?
Subfenestral means beneath a window.
What part of speech is subfenestral?
Subfenestral is an adjective.

Words near subfenestral in the dictionary

  1. subfelony
  2. subfemtoliter
  3. subfemtomolar
  4. subfemtosecond
  5. subfemtotesla
  6. subfenestral
  7. subfertile
  8. subfertilities
  9. subfertility
  10. subferulary
  11. subfeu

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