Pectinated

Origin

From Latin pectinatus + -ed.

Full definition of pectinated

Adjective

1. (anatomy, zoology, botany) Having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb.
• 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:To sit cross-legged, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together, is accounted bad, and friends will persuade us from it.