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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pectinate \Pec"ti*na`te\, Pectinated \Pec"ti*na`ted\, a. [L.
pectinatus p. pr of pectinare to comb, from pecten, -inis,
a comb; cf Gr ? to comb, AS feax hair, OHG. fahs, E.
paxwax.]
1. Resembling the teeth of a comb.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Having very narrow, close divisions, in
arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb;
comblike as a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See
Illust.
e of {Antenn[ae]}.
3. Interlaced, like two combs. [R.] ``Our fingers pectinated,
or shut together.'' --Sir T. Browne.
{Pectinate claw} (Zo["o]l.), a claw having a serrate edge,
found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning
the feathers.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pectinate
adj : like a comb
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