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Pectinated vs Pectinate - What's the difference?

pectinated | pectinate |

As adjectives the difference between pectinated and pectinate

is that pectinated is (anatomy|zoology|botany) having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb while pectinate is resembling a comb.

As a noun pectinate is

(chemistry) an ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.

pectinated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (anatomy, zoology, botany) Having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb.
  • *1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.23:
  • *:To sit cross-legged, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together, is accounted bad, and friends will persuade us from it.

    • pectinate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Resembling a comb.
  • Having segments which are greatly lengthened to one side.
    • The moth's antennae were pectinate in shape, set with long teeth along one edge only.
  • (mycology) striate

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.

    • Related terms

    * pecten * pectinal * pectinatella * pectination * pectinibranchiate * pectiniform ----