pectinated

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Definition of pectinated in English English dictionary

Having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb

To sit cross-legged, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together, is accounted bad, and friends will persuade us from it.

Resembling the teeth of a comb

Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles

(e) of Antennæ

Interlaced, like two combs

Hyphenation

pec·ti·na·ted

Etymology

() From Latin pectinatus + -ed.