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 Pec·ti·na·te Pec·ti·na·ted a.
 1. Resembling the teeth of a comb.
 2. Nat. Hist. Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles.  See Illust. (e) of Antennæ.
 3. Interlaced, like two combs. [R.] “Our fingers pectinated, or shut together.”
 Pectinate claw Zool., a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.
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