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Pectinate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

PEC'TINATE

Pectinate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Pectinate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pectinated

Pectinated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Pectinately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a pectinate manner.