One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.
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PEC'TINATE
1. Having resemblance to the teeth of a comb. In botany, a pectinate leaf is a sort of pinnate leaf, in which the leaflets are toothed like a comb.
2. A mineral is pectinated, when it presents short filaments, crystals or branches, nearly parallel and equidistant.
Alt. of Pectinated
1. Resembling the teeth of a comb.
2. 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 Antennae.
3. Interlaced, like two combs.
In a pectinate manner.
1. The state of being pectinated.
1. The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.
3. Comblike toothing.
One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.
A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.
Having pectinated gills.
Comblike in form.
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