Category:Pectinate

Pec"ti*na`te, pec"ti*na`ted, a. Etym: [l. pectinatus, p.pr. of Pectinare to comb, from pecten, -inis, a comb; cf. Gr. feax hair, Ohg. fahs, e. paxwax.]

1. Resembling the teeth of a comb.

2. (nat. Hist.)

Defn: 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 antennæ.

3. Interlaced, like two combs. [r.] "our fingers pectinated, or shut Together." Sir t. Browne. Pectinate claw (zoöl.), a claw having a Serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in Cleaning the feathers.