Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Comb-like; pertaining to a pecten or pectination; pectineal.
- noun A sawfish which has teeth projecting from each side of an elongated rostrum, and the eyes directed upward. See
Pristis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.
- noun A fish whose bones resemble comb teeth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fish whosebones resemble theteeth of acomb .
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Examples
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The silver-fir, of a whitish colour, like rosemary under the leaf, is distinguished from the rest, by the pectinal shape of it: The cones not so large as the _picea_, grow also upright, and this they call the female: For I find botanists not unanimously agreed about the sexes of trees.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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