windowpane Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a pane of glass in a window
    window.
    • the ball shattered the window
  2. noun very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America
    Scophthalmus aquosus.

WordNet


Win"dow*pane` noun
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) See Pane, n., (3) b. In this sense, written also window pane.
  2. (Zoöl.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.

Webster 1913