pectinated
- a variation of pectinate.
Example Sentences
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Mouth.—Mandibles, with the inferior point produced into a single pectinated tooth, rarely into two pectinated teeth; on one side of one specimen, there were only four instead of five teeth.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The larger of the two upper great unequal spines is pectinated, like the teeth of the mandibles; there is a third long finer spine beneath the upper large pair.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The tentacula are long and pectinated like a feather, whence arose the fable of their becoming geese.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Spines on the protuberant segments of both rami of both cirri, coarsely and doubly pectinated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Mandibles, with three strong teeth, two unequal-sized small teeth being placed between the first and second, thus making five altogether; inferior angle broad, pectinated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
