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Fenestra vs Subfenestral - What's the difference?

fenestra | subfenestral |

As a noun fenestra

is an opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane.

As an adjective subfenestral is

of or pertaining to the underside of or space beneath a fenestra or window.

fenestra

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • an opening in a body, sometimes with a membrane

    • Anagrams

    * * English terms derived from Etruscan ----

    subfenestral

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the underside of or space beneath a fenestra or window.
    • The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.
  • * 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. [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.
  • * 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.