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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

pecten

-inis

, a comb, a kind of shellfish. See

(Anat.)

(a)

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

(b)

The pubic bone.

(Zool.)

Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus

Pecten

, and numerous allied genera (family

Pectinidæ

); a scallop. See

(Zool.)

The comb of a scorpion. See

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(b)