Crossword-Solution: PECTORAL 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Pectoral a. Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the
pectoral muscles.
Pectoral a. Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs;
as, a pectoral remedy.
Pectoral a. Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral
sandpiper.
Pectoral n. A covering or protecting for the breast.
Pectoral n. A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
Pectoral n. A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
Pectoral n. A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially
the lungs.

We have 15 clues for the answer “PECTORAL”

Clue Answers
Chest-related 1 answer
Either of two large muscles 1 answer
Kind of fin on a fish 1 answer
Muscle, bit by ear affecting the mouth 1 answer
Thoracic 1 answer
Worn on the chest. 1 answer
of the chest or thorax 1 answer
Muscle moving your shoulder – clear top (anag) 1 answer
Push-up target 2 answers
Of the chest 2 answers
Bench press muscle 3 answers
Types of fish fins 7 answers
Type of muscle 9 answers
breastplate Roman 10 answers
breastplate 12 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZMEEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PECTORAL (5)

But rather, when we had an opportunity, we entered their little plots and gardens and gathered sweet-smelling flowers from the surface and dug up their roots, obsolete indeed, but still useful to the student, which might, when their rank barbarism was digested heal the pectoral arteries with the gift of eloquence.
The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Richard de Bury 1996
Reichel and Anderson mention a living parasitic monster, the inferior trunk of one body proceeding from the pectoral region of the other.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
And it is clear that the motive power of the pectoral muscles in men is much less than is necessary for flight, for in birds the bulk and weight of the muscles for flapping the wings are not less than a sixth part of the entire weight of the body.
A History of Aeronautics E. Charles Vivian 1997
This latter movement is effected solely by the aid of the pectoral fins; the tail being collapsed, and not used.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1997
One day it eats barley-sugar by the mouthful, by the handful; yesterday it bought “papier Weymen”; to-day the monster’s teeth ache, and it applies to its walls an alexipharmatic to mitigate their dampness; to-morrow it will lay in a provision of pectoral paste.
Ferragus Honore de Balzac 1999

Quotes with PECTORAL (3)

These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer concentrating on physical skills. Any specialization or expertise that one finds enjoyable and where one can improve one’s knowledge over time. The important thing, however, is the attitude toward these disciplines. If one prays in ord…
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
Crossover' is a word scientists use to describe dolphins' soaring over seas, their traveling so free and fast, so high-spirited and almost effervescent that their sleek bodies barely skim the waves. The suggestion of splashes from tail and pectoral leaves a luminous wake across the water. For these crossover miles, the dolphins, like their human terrestrial mammal kin, belong more to the element of air than the sea.... Held in [the dolphins'] fluid embrace, I pulled my arms c…
Brenda Peterson Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals
For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
Sylvester Stallone
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1963–2011).