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imbricate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Imbricate  \Im"bri*cate\,  Imbricated  \Im"bri*ca`ted\,  a.  [L. 
  imbricatus  p.  p.  of  imbricare  to  cover  with  tiles,  to  form 
  like  a  gutter  tile,  fr  imbrex  -icis,  a  hollow  tile,  gutter 
  tile,  fr  imber  rain.] 
  1.  Bent  and  hollowed  like  a  roof  or  gutter  tile. 
 
  2.  Lying  over  each  other  in  regular  order  so  as  to  ``break 
  joints,''  like  tiles  or  shingles  on  a  roof,  the  scales  on 
  the  leaf  buds  of  plants  and  the  cups  of  some  acorns,  or 
  the  scales  of  fishes;  overlapping  each  other  at  the 
  margins,  as  leaves  in  [ae]stivation. 
 
  3.  In  decorative  art:  Having  scales  lapping  one  over  the 
  other  or  a  representation  of  such  scales;  as  an 
  imbricated  surface;  an  imbricated  pattern. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Imbricate  \Im"bri*cate\,  v.  t. 
  To  lay  in  order  one  lapping  over  another,  so  as  to  form  an 
  imbricated  surface. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  imbricate 
  adj  :  (botany)  used  especially  of  leaves  or  bracts;  overlapping  or 
  layered  as  scales  or  shingles  [syn:  {imbricated}] 




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