Pecten is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 66 anagrams from letters in pecten (ceenpt).
1350-1400; Middle English Latin pecten comb, rake, scallop, pubes, akin to pectere, Greek pékein to comb, card
Thus a Crepidula on a pecten shell will be ribbed while the same species on a stone will be perfectly smooth.
The proximal part of the free edge of the pecten is somewhat swollen, and sections through this part have a club-shaped form.
Found on pecten shells, and abundant off the coast of Maine.
The scallop-shells (pecten) are objects too familiar to require any general description.
The species chiefly used on the Atlantic coast are the pecten irradians and P. concentricus.
The Scollop Shell (pecten concentricus), used for card-racks and pin-cushions.
The species P. maculatum lives in Mytilus edulis (mussel) and in the smooth scallop, pecten magellanicus.
Scallops (pecten) will be found at the base of the plants, and the common prawns are very numerous, swimming freely about.
"Scallops of the lesser sort" are probably pecten opercularius and P. varius.
On this day however a new structure appears, which remains permanently through life, and is known as the pecten.
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