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单词 pectinal
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pectinaladj.1

Forms: 1500s pectynall.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pectinal.
Etymology: < Middle French pectinal (1533 in the passage translated in quot. ?1541) < classical Latin pectin- , pecten (see pecten n.) + Middle French -al -al suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin pectinalis relating to the pecten (in an undated Hungarian source).
Anatomy. Obsolete.
Designating the pubic bone. Cf. pecten n. 1b.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [adjective] > hip bone > pubis
pectinal?1541
interpubic1836
pectineal1840
prepubic1870
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Iiv Two great bones..that be coniuncte wt this great spondyle of the holowe bone behynde and before in makynge the pectynall bone [Fr. los pectinal].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

pectinaladj.2n.

Brit. /ˈpɛktᵻnl/, U.S. /ˈpɛktn(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s pectinall, 1600s– pectinal.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pectin- , pecten , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin pectin-, pecten (see pecten n.) + -al suffix1. Compare earlier pectinal adj.1
A. adj.2
Zoology. Of the nature of or resembling a comb; of or relating to a pecten (pecten n. 3). Cf. pectinate adj.2 Also occasionally in Botany.In quot. 1646: spec. †designating a flatfish having a spine with apophyses resembling the teeth of a comb (obsolete). Cf. sense B.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape
fingered1597
fistular1640
umbilicated1693
pectinal1705
fornicated1750
deltoid1753
linguiform1753
panduriform1753
lingulated1754
campaniform1758
augmented1760
ringed1760
securiform1760
urceolate1760
utricular1760
lingulate1763
vermicular1766
pandurated1771
navicular1793
semicolumnar1793
ungulate1802
capitellate1808
meniscoid1821
virgate1821
mitriform1824
pulvinate1824
caudated1829
vulviform1829
caudate1830
circinate1830
intruded1830
trochlear1830
scalariform1836
hippocrepiform1847
neottious1850
pulviniform1851
foxglove-shaped1856
clathroid1857
molariform1857
velate1857
strombuliform1859
calceiform1860
coralline1860
forniciform1860
urceolar1860
calceolate1861
frustulose1866
pandurate1866
intruse1870
scalar1880
meniscoidal1881
fingerposted1885
applanate1887
trochleariform1895
naviculoid1898
halonate1911
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. x. 203 Pectinall [fishes], whose ribs are rectilineall. View more context for this quotation
1705 J. Evelyn Sylva (1729) ii. iii. 119 The Silver-Fir..is distinguished from the rest by the pectinal Shape of it.
1854 W. I. Burnett tr. C. T. E. von Siebold Anat. Invertebrata xi. 250 The two pectinal rows [Ger. Kiemenreihen]..are wholly concealed in the cavity of the mantle.
1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 270 In all other scorpions there are only five such plates, the sixth (reckoned from behind) being reduced to a small sternite, situated between the bases of the pectinal combs.
1900 Proc. Royal Soc. 1899–1900 66 475 In Reptiles and Birds the hyaloid artery is superseded by a new development, viz., the Pectinal system.
1986 Bot. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 93 382 Pectinal veins may be basal or suprabasal in origin.
1994 Hydrobiologia 281 57 Alona alsafadii..has..a smallest basal spine of the postabdomen composed of c. 6 incompletely fused pectinal spinules.
B. n.
Zoology. A flatfish having a spine with apophyses resembling the teeth of a comb. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > member of
halibutc1430
pectinal1646
sole1882
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 181 Other fishes..as pectinals, or such as have the Apophyses of their spine made laterally like a combe.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pectinals..their back-bone, and ribs do in some sort resemble a comb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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