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  1. pectinatedadjective

    Having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb.

  2. Etymology: From pectinatus + -ed.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Pectinatedadjective

    Put one within another alternately. This seems to be the meaning.

    Etymology: from pecten.

    To sit cross leg’d or with our fingers pectinated, is accounted bad. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pectinatedadjective

    resembling the teeth of a comb

  2. Pectinatedadjective

    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 Antennae

  3. Pectinatedadjective

    interlaced, like two combs

  4. Etymology: [L. pectinatus, p. pr. of pectinare to comb, from pecten, -inis, a comb; cf. Gr. pe`kein to comb, AS. feax hair, OHG. fahs, E. paxwax.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pectinated in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pectinated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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