Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two margins toothed like a comb: used especially in botany and zoölogy.
- In Mollusca, having 2 rows of plates on the ctenidium, or gill, arranged, typically, perpendicularly to the axis, as in
Aspidobranchiata and Tectibranchiata. Alsobipennate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Having two margins toothed like a comb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having two
margins toothed like acomb .
Etymologies
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bi- + pectinate
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