(n) tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil, Syn.toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata
{ } a. [ 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. ] 1. Resembling the teeth of a comb. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Interlaced, like two combs. [ R. ] “Our fingers pectinated, or shut together.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
Pectinate claw (Zool.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]
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