Imbricate synonyms

ĭm'brĭ-kāt'

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imbricated
Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
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obvolute
(Botany) Having two opposite leaves, each with one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other.
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unconformity (related)
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lewisian (related)
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basaltic (related)
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Imbricate Sentence Examples

  • Thus, in Malvaceae the corolla is contorted and the calyx valuate, or reduplicate; in St John's-wort the calyx is imbricate, and the corolla contorted.

  • With very few exceptions, the integuments form imbricate scalelike folds arranged with the greatest regularity; they are small and pluriserial on the upper parts of the body and tail, large and uniserial on the abdomen, and generally biserial on the lower side of the tail.

  • The leaves are small and imbricate, and are borne on flattened branches, which are apt to be mistaken for the leaves.

  • This aestivation is imbricate.

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