Usually means: Resembling a comb's toothed edge.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. pectinate: Merriam-Webster
  2. pectinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pectinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pectinate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pectinate: Vocabulary.com
  6. pectinate: Wordnik
  7. pectinate: Wiktionary
  8. pectinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pectinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pectinate: Dictionary.com
  11. Pectinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pectinate: Rhymezone
  13. Pectinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pectinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. pectinate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pectinate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pectinate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. pectinate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pectinate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pectinate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. pectinate: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Pectinate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pectinate)

adjective:  Resembling a comb.
adjective:  (anatomy, zoology, botany) Having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb.
adjective:  (mycology) Striate.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To fit together in an alternating manner; to interlock or interdigitate.
noun:  (chemistry) An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.

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