Pectinal

Quick meaning: Pectinal is an adjective meaning Of or relating to a comb; resembling a comb.

Meaning

Of or relating to a comb; resembling a comb.

More Meanings

1. A fish whose bones resemble the teeth of a comb.

Example Sentences

pectinal teeth

Now although Galen in this place makes instance but in one, yet there are other fishes, whose eies regard the heavens, as Plane, and cartilagineous fishes, as pectinals, or such as have their bones made laterally like a comb; for when they apply themselves to sleep or rest upon the white side, their eies on the other side look upward toward heaven.

Word Forms

• pectinals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include combinatoric, combinatorial, cometic, combinative, combinatory, comatic.

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