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pectinal, a. (n.) ? Obs.|ˈpɛktɪnəl|
[ad. med.L. pectinālis, f. L. pecten, pectin-: see -al1.]
1. Anat. Belonging to the ‘pecten’ or pubes; pectinal bone, the pubic bone, sharebone.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirur. I iv, Two great bones..that be coniuncte wt this spondyle of the holowe bone behynde and before in makynge the pectynall bone.
2. Nat. Hist. Of the nature of or resembling a comb; applied by Sir T. Browne to flat-fish, from the resemblance of the spine with its apophyses to a comb. Also as n., in pl. flat-fish.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. i. 181 Other fishes..as pectinals, or such as have the Apophyses of their spine made laterally like a combe. Ibid. x. 203 Pectinall [fishes], whose ribs are rectilineall. 1656Blount Glossogr., Pectinals..their back-bone, and ribs do in some sort resemble a comb. 1705Evelyn Sylva ii. iii. (1729) 119 The Silver-Fir..is distinguished from the rest by the pectinal Shape of it. |