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pectinates

pectinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pectinate.

pectinates is the plural of pectinate.

Meaning of pectinate

Verb

pectinate (third-person singular simple present pectinates, present participle pectinating, simple past and past participle pectinated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To fit together in an alternating manner; to interlock or interdigitate.
    • To ſet croſſe legg’d, or with our fingers pectinated or ſhut together is accounted bad, and friends will perſwade us from it.1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward...

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Questions about pectinates

What is pectinates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pectinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pectinate.

Words near pectinates in the dictionary

  1. pectinate
  2. pectinate line
  3. pectinate lines
  4. pectinated
  5. pectinately
  6. pectinates
  7. pectinating
  8. pectination
  9. pectinations
  10. pectine
  11. pectineal

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