fenestra

1. 1.

   a small opening covered with membrane (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear)

   Broaderorifice

   Narrowerfenestra ovalisfenestra rotunda

   Part ofear

   otology

Other forms of fenestra

plural

fenestrae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fenestra

What does fenestra mean?

fenestra means "a small opening covered with membrane (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear)".

How many syllables are in fenestra?

fenestra has 3 syllables: fe-ne-stra. The stress falls on "fe".

Is fenestra a common word?

fenestra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.