Having the appearance, texture, or structure resembling a comb, or readily combed and neat in appearance.
From 'comb' + '-y' (suffix creating adjectives meaning 'resembling or having the quality of'), following the pattern of words like 'spiky' or 'fluffy.'
A comby texture in geology describes crystalline structures with parallel ridges, while in biology it describes feather patterns—same word, describing nature's parallel grooves across scales.
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