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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having projections resembling the teeth of a comb; comblike.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, to form an interdigitated arrangement (see pectinated, 2): said of fibrovascular bundles.
  • Having teeth like a comb; formed as or into a pectination; comb-like in figure; pectinated: as, the pectinate muscles of the heart; pectinate scales of a fish; pectinate armature of the preoperculum.
  • Specifically— Having a pecten, pectination, or comb-like part or organ; pectinated: as, the pectinate claw of a bird.
  • In botany, having resemblance to the teeth of a comb, or arranged like them: specifically applied to a pinnatifid organ, particularly a leaf, with narrow close segments, like the teeth of a comb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Resembling the teeth of a comb.
  • adjective (Nat. Hist.) Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike. See Illust. (e) of Antennæ.
  • adjective rare Interlaced, like two combs.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling a comb.
  • adjective Having segments which are greatly lengthened to one side.
  • adjective mycology striate
  • noun chemistry An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.

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  • adjective like a comb

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  • having teeth like a comb

    June 12, 2007

  • The sign of an ice hockey great

    Is the skill with which he can skate

    Or the classically comical

    Physiognomical:

    A smile that is proudly pectinate.

    July 15, 2015