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Pectinated   Listen
adjective
Pectinated, Pectinate  adj.  
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.
3.
Interlaced, like two combs. (R.) "Our fingers pectinated, or shut together."
Pectinate claw (Zool.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.






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