PECTEN

Definitions: PECTEN

PECTEN

Noun

1. The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).

2. Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.

3. The pubic bone.

4. A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Pecten \Pec"ten\, noun. [Latin expression pecten, -inis, comb, kind of shellfish. See Pectinate.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: PECTEN

Books

• Guidebook to Pecten Shells (reference)

• Pecten Shells: Guide Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

If there is a pair of tufts near the base of the siphon, and a ventral row of tufts, or a row of straight hairs following the pecten, the genus is identified as Culiseta.Credit: CDC.

There may be a row of closely set teeth, or spines on each side of the siphon near the ventral margin, otherwise know as pecten. Aedes aegypti is a vector for Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), as well as Yellow Fever.Credit: CDC.

There may be one or more scattered hairs, or tufts of hairs along the sides of the siphon beyond the pecten.Credit: CDC.

It's important not to confuse the hairs on the siphon with the uniform, closely set teeth of the pecten row.Credit: CDC.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "PECTEN": genus Pecten ♦ Pecten Clintonius ♦ Pecten irradians ♦ Pecten magellanicus ♦ Pecten opercularis ♦ Pecten tenuicostatus. Additional references.

Albanian

perde syri te sogjtë. (various references)

Danish

pecten. (various references)

Dutch

pecten. (various references)

French

crête (peak). (various references)

German

Pecten. (various references)

Greek 

ηβικό οστούν. (various references)

Italian

pettine (beater, chaser, chaser die, chimb, chime, comb, crest, finger, grain finger, mouse, print yoke, reed, scallop, toothed plate, variegated scallop, yoke). (various references)

Pig Latin

ectenpay

Portuguese

crista (chaplet, comb, crest, currycomb, edge, gardenbed, hummock, peak, ridge, ridge of high pressure, spine, surge, tip, top, wedge). (various references)

Romanian

osul pubis, organ pectine. (various references)

Spanish

hueso pubis, cresta (comb, crest, market top, peak, ridge, summit, top, tuft). (various references)

Turkish

taraksı yapı. (various references)

Ukranian 

гребневидний орган, лобкова кістка (pubis). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "PECTEN": pectens. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pence.

-2 letters: cent, cepe, cete, neep, peen, pent, teen.

-3 letters: cee, cep, nee, net, pec, pee, pen, pet, tee, ten.

-4 letters: en, et, ne, pe.

+1 letter: pectens, percent, potence, precent.

+2 letters: centuple, conepate, incepted, patience, pectines, pentacle, percents, phenetic, potences, precents, preenact, prentice, pretence, tenpence, terpenic, tuppence, twopence.

+3 letters: appetence, appetency, carpenter, centipede, centupled, centuples, competent, conepates, copestone, copresent, deception, encrypted, epicenter, excepting, exception, excipient, expectant, expecting, impotence, inceptive, inspected, intercept, pachytene, patencies, patiences, pectinate, penitence, pentacles, petulance, phenacite, phenetics, phrenetic, placement, placentae, potencies, precedent, precented, precentor, preenacts, prenticed, prentices, prescient, pretences, princelet, pubescent, reception, recipient, reinspect, splenetic, tenpences, tuppences, twopences, unperfect.

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