pectoral
pek tuh ruhl
- n either of two large muscles of the chest
- n an adornment worn on the chest or breast
- a of or relating to the chest or thorax
pectoral organ
- And, most surprising of all, its pectoral fins included bones that look like nothing less than a primitive wrist and fingers.
- It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New .
- And most startling of all, when technicians dissected its pectoral fins, they found the beginnings of a tetrapod hand, complete with a primitive version of a wrist and five .