pectination

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Noun

  1. The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.
    • the complication or pectination of the fingers was an hieroglyphick of impediment - 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins,...
  2. The act of combing; the combing of the head.
  3. comb-like toothing

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