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Pecten   Listen
noun
Pecten  n.  
1.
(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.
2.
(Zool.) Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.
3.
(Zool.) The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).





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... is of extraordinary dimensions, being three hundred feet long, and though the exact width cannot be made out, is certainly several hundred feet across. Putnam[117] gives an account of the excavation of one of these mounds formed of shells of the MYA, VENUS, PECTEN, BUCCINUM, and NATICA genera. It stretched along the sea-coast for a distance of several hundred feet, it was from four to five feet thick, and penetrated some distance below the surface of the ground. The valves had ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac


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