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Definition of Pectination
1. n. The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.
Definition of Pectination
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pectination
Literary usage of Pectination
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Like P. turtur, the pectination of the bill is not discernible when that organ
is closed. I procured several examples of this bird in Bass's Straits on the ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1885)
"Claws pectinate on all the tarsi, the pectination double. Spurs of hind tibi«?
slender. ... The pectination of the o claws ¡- aNu different, being fine and ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1884)
"Against this Mr. Meyrick would urge the pectination mentioned above, ... has this
pectination, yet no one would refer it to the ..."
4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1895)
"... the possession of the uncus is a more valuable systematic character than the
possession of the basal pectination (of the median fold of the hind wing). ..."
5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1869)
"Antenna; black, 15-jointed; pectination of 3rd joint single, ser- rat-e, the
joint stout; pectination of remainder very slender, produced. not pilose; ..."
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