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Pectinates vs Pectinated - What's the difference?

pectinates | pectinated |

As a noun pectinates

is .

As an adjective pectinated is

(anatomy|zoology|botany) having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb.

pectinates

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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.