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Resembling a comb.
(anatomy, zoology, botany) Having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb.
(mycology) Striate.
third-person singular simple present pectinates, present participle pectinating, simple past and past participle pectinated
(transitive, intransitive) To fit together in an alternating manner; to interlock or interdigitate. quotations examples
To ſet croſſe legg’d, or with our fingers pectinated or ſhut together is accounted bad, and friends will perſwade us from it.
1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], 5th book, paragraph 9, page 266
plural pectinates
(chemistry) An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid. examples