单词 | pectinal |
释义 | † pectinaladj.1 Anatomy. Obsolete. Designating the pubic bone. Cf. pecten n. 1b. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Zoology. A flatfish having a spine with apophyses resembling the teeth of a comb. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1?1541adj.2n.1646 |
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