pectinate
adjective
formed into or having closely parallel, toothlike projections that resemble the teeth of a comb.
pectinately
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a word derived from
pectinate.
Example Sentences
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P. thin, campan. then exp. naked, pectinately sulcate, maroon or brownish; g. annulato-adnexed; s. ventricose, volva large, lax. lenticularis, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
But the young plants and even the young shoots when developing from the rootstocks under water comply with the above rule, producing very compound, finely and pectinately dissected leaves.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
The first glume is oblong or ovate, flat, smooth, coriaceous, pectinately margined with upcurved spines.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Scales of the globular involucre appendaged, and with a black pectinately ciliate fringe; rays wanting; pappus very short; leaves lanceolate, entire, or the lower lyrate-toothed, rough; root perennial.—Waste places, E. New Eng.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
