Usually means: Comb-like structure in birds.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. pecten: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pecten, Pecten, pecten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pecten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pecten: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pecten, pecten: Wordnik
  6. pecten: Wiktionary
  7. pecten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pecten: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. pecten: Dictionary.com
  10. Pecten (biology), Pecten (bivalve), Pecten (genus), Pecten: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Pecten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pecten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Pecten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pecten: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pecten: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pecten: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pecten: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. pecten: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pecten: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pecten)

▸ noun:  (anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.
▸ noun:  (anatomy) The pubic bone.
▸ noun:  (anatomy) A comb structure.
▸ noun:  (zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.

Similar:
palm, knuckle, palp, bone, prepollex, purlicue, peck, pinna, pulp, knucklebone, more...

Types:
scallop, abalone, queen scallop, coquille, pilgrim scallop, more...

Phrases:
pecten pubis, pecten oculi, pecten band, genus pecten, pecten irradians, more...

Adjectives:
common, cubital, small, avian, large, pubic, basal, bivalve, great, distal, edible

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Similar:
palm, knuckle, palp, bone, prepollex, purlicue, peck, pinna, pulp, knucklebone, more...

Types:
scallop, abalone, queen scallop, coquille, pilgrim scallop, more...

Phrases:
pecten pubis, pecten oculi, pecten band, genus pecten, pecten irradians, pecten magellanicus, pubic pecten, pecten ossis pubis, scandix pecten veneris, pecten of anal canal, retinal pecten, Pecten maximus, more...

Adjectives:
common, cubital, small, avian, large, pubic, basal, bivalve, great, distal, edible



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