pectinal means of or relating to a comb; resembling a comb. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
Latin pecten (“comb”). See pectinate. By surface analysis, Latin pectin- (“comb, scallop”) + -al.
adj
- Of or relating to a comb; resembling a comb.“pectinal teeth”
noun
- A fish whose bones resemble the teeth of a comb.“Now although Galen in this place makes instance but in one, yet there are other fishes, whose eies regard the heavens, as Plane, and cartilagineous fishes, as pectinals, or such as have their bones made laterally like a comb; for when they apply themselves to sleep or rest upon the white side, their eies on the other side look upward toward heaven.”