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|passage=To sit cross-legged, or with our fingers '''pectinated''' or shut together, is accounted bad, and friends will persuade us from it.}}
|passage=To sit cross-legged, or with our fingers '''pectinated''' or shut together, is accounted bad, and friends will persuade us from it.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1928|author=George Vernon Hudson|title=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/193093 The butterflies and moths of New Zealand] |passage=The following are the terms used in describing the different forms of antennæ in the Lepidoptera:— 1. ''Pectinated'', when the joints have long processes like the teeth of a comb. If these are on one side only, the antennæ are ''unipectinated''; if on both sides, ''bipectinated''. |page=9}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1928|author=George Vernon Hudson|title=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/193093 The butterflies and moths of New Zealand] |passage=The following are the terms used in describing the different forms of antennæ in the Lepidoptera:— 1. ''Pectinated'', when the joints have long processes like the teeth of a comb. If these are on one side only, the antennæ are ''unipectinated''; if on both sides, ''bipectinated''. |page=9}}
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Revision as of 17:39, 11 July 2023

English

Etymology

From Latin pectinatus +‎ -ed.

Adjective

pectinated (comparative more pectinated, superlative most pectinated)

  1. Alternative form of pectinate
    • 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.
    • 1928, George Vernon Hudson, The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, page 9:
      The following are the terms used in describing the different forms of antennæ in the Lepidoptera:— 1. Pectinated, when the joints have long processes like the teeth of a comb. If these are on one side only, the antennæ are unipectinated; if on both sides, bipectinated.
  2. With pectin added.