WINDOWPANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windowpane mean? 

• WINDOWPANE (noun)
  The noun WINDOWPANE has 2 senses:

1. a pane of glass in a window

2. very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America

  Familiarity information: WINDOWPANE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDOWPANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pane of glass in a window

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

window; windowpane

Context example:

the ball shattered the window

Hypernyms ("windowpane" is a kind of...):

pane; pane of glass; window glass (sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors)

Holonyms ("windowpane" is a part of...):

window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Scophthalmus aquosus; windowpane

Hypernyms ("windowpane" is a kind of...):

lefteye flounder; lefteyed flounder (flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head)

Holonyms ("windowpane" is a member of...):

genus Scophthalmus; Scophthalmus (a genus of Bothidae)