The end branchlets are acute and pectinate (pecten, a comb), or arranged like the teeth of a comb.
Claw of middle toe pectinate on inner margin; inner and middle toes about equal in length.
Pectinate pinnatifid with narrow segments which are set close like the teeth of a comb, 162.
Spikes solitary; spikelets 1-flowered; first glume of the sessile spikelet pectinate 21.
Bill usually straight and sharply pointed; lores naked; head feathered; tarsus with transverse scales; middle toe-nail pectinateor with a comblike edge.
Arista long plumose, orpectinate above; oral vibrissae present; anal cell complete; costa broken at the apex of R1.
Palpi much thickened on the base, moving laterally, last joint often with two pectinate bristles; no eyes; legs I ending in several long hairs; adult sometimes parasitic.
Oral margin produced snout-like; vibrissa placed high above the oral margin; antennal arista either pectinate or more or less plumose.
The term pectinate sulcate is employed on account of a series of small elevations on the ridges, giving them a pectinate, or comb-like, appearance.
The margin is thin and marked by deep furrows and ridges, so that it is deeply striate, or the terms sulcate or pectinate sulcate are used to express the character of the margin.
Leaves lanceolate, sharply serrate, the lower pectinate when under water; fruit sharply angled.
Aquatic perennials, with pectinate immersed leaves, and the erect hollow flower-stems almost leafless.
The iris becomes attached to the pectinate ligament and to the endothelium of Descemet's membrane.
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