Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PEC'TIN-ATE, or PEC'TIN-A-TED, a. [from L. pecten, a comb.]

Having resemblance to the teeth of a comb. In botany, pectinate leaf is a sort of pinnate leaf, in which the leaflets are toothed like a comb. – Martyn. A mineral is pectinated, when it presents short filaments crystals or branches, nearly parallel and equidistant. – Phillips.