pectination

Example Sentences

• "the complication or pectination of the fingers was an hieroglyphick of impediment"
• "1911, Encyclopædia Britannica: "Coleoptera" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Coleoptera This tribe includes beetles of carnivorous habit with five segments on every foot, simple thread-like feelers with none of the segments enlarged to form club or pectination, and the outer lobs (galea) of the first maxilla usually two-segmented and palpiform"
• "a substantially planar second electrode having at least two pectinations and positioned flat against the inner surface of the second substrate, wherein the pectinations are disposed parallel to the polarization axis of either one of the two polarizers"
• "Sir John Rennie, the architect of Waterloo Bridge and other public works, never went to sleep without previously having his hair combed at the back of his head with a fine tooth comb, and rubbed gently with the palm of the hand. This pectination and manipulation induced sound sleep, and after an hour's rest or more, he arose refreshed and invigorated."
• "Antennae in the male with 9 very long bipectinations, and the apex bifid to form a tenth, the longest pectination about half as long as the whole antenna"