Crossword-Solution: PECTINATED 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The claws are powerful and but slightly curved, and that of the median toe is not pectinated as in the herons.

This is an interesting form, and we have called it Cheyletus seminivorus It is of medium size, and especially noticeable from the tripartite palpi, which are divided into an outer, long, curved, claw-like lobe, with two rounded teeth at the base, and two inner, slender lobes pectinated on the inner side, the third innermost lobe being minute.

The tentacula are long and pectinated like a feather, whence arose the fable of their becoming geese.

The scales, when examined by the glass, remind one, from their pectinated character, of shells covering the walls of a grotto,--a peculiarity to which, when showing my specimen to Agassiz, while it had yet no duplicate, I directed his attention, and which led him to extemporize for it, on the spot, the generic name Ostralepis, or shell-scale.

Hist.) Defn: Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles.