Crossword-Solution: PECTINATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pectinate | a. | Alt. of Pectinated |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PECTINATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Comblike | 1 answer |
| shaped like a comb | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PECTINATE (5)
Treacher Collins found, after a careful examination of eyes upon which iridectomy had been performed for glaucoma, that it is extremely rare for the initial section to pass through the pectinate ligament, while Schlemm's canal invariably escapes.
The _first glume_ is oblong-lanceolate, dorsally slightly convex, smooth, coriaceous, 7- to 9-nerved, and with pectinate margins consisting of long, spreading, upcurved spines and at the top with subquadrate wings on each side reaching beyond the acute tip.
The margin is thin and marked by deep furrows and ridges, so that it is deeply striate, or the terms sulcate or pectinate sulcate are used to express the character of the margin.
The term pectinate sulcate is employed on account of a series of small elevations on the ridges, giving them a pectinate, or comb-like, appearance.
Hist.) Defn: Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).