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Pecten or pectin may refer to:
Pecten
Biology
- Pecten (biology), any comb like structure in animals
- Pecten (bivalve), a genus of scallops
- Pecten (company), a subsidiary of Sinopec
- Pecten oculi, a structure in the bird retina which contains most of the vasculature
Other uses
- Pecten, Alberta, Canada
- Venus comb murex, after its scientific name Murex pecten
Pectin
- Pectin, a plant polysaccharide
- Pectineus muscle, a thigh muscle
- Pectinoidea, a superfamily of bivalve mollusks which includes Pectinidae
- Pectinidae, a family of bivalve mollusks
- Pecten albicans, Japanese baking scallop
- Pecten excavatus
- Pecten sulcicostatus, South African scallop
- Pectinidae, a family of bivalve mollusks
See also
- Pectineal line (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Pecten
- All pages with titles beginning with Pectin
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