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bipectinate

[ bahy-pek-tuh-neyt ]

adjective

, Zoology, Botany.
  1. having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bipectinate1

First recorded in 1830–40; bi- 1 + pectinate
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Example Sentences

The sub-class is now divided into two orders: the Aspidobranchia in which the branchia or ctenidium is bipectinate and attached only at its base, and the Pectinibranchia in which the ctenidium is monopectinate and attached to the mantle throughout its length.

The ctenidium is monopectinate and attached to the mantle along its whole length, except in Adeorbis and Valvata; in the latter alone it is bipectinate.

Ctenidium bipectinate, free; hermaphrodite; fluviatile.

A single bipectinate ctenidium on left side.

Spire of shell much reduced; two bipectinate ctenidia, the right being the smaller; no operculum.

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