subfenestral

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adjective

Beneath a window.

“The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.”

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivesubfenestral (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBeneath a window.

    The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.

    2 more examples

    1829, "Dr. George Shaw," in Personal and Literary Memorials, by Henry Digby Beste 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 olim meminisse juvabit.

    1996, "In a Different Place: Feminist Aesthetics and the Picture Book", by Anne Lundin, in Ways of Knowing Kay E. Vandergrift, ed. https://web.archive.org/web/20060830165925/http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/books/LUNDIN65.pdf Under the Window’s subfenestral world is full of openings as well as suggestive of the ground, the underground of life.

  2. not comparableanatomyBeneath a fenestra.
    1 more example

    2002, "Archaeopterygidae", by Andrzej Elzanowski, in Mesozoic Birds, Luis M. Chiappe & Lawrence M. Witmer edd. 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.

Origin

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Englishfenestral
  5. Englishsubfenestral

From sub- + fenestral.

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APA

subfenestral. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subfenestral

MLA

“subfenestral.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subfenestral. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subfenestral,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subfenestral.

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