Imbricate Definition

ĭmbrĭ-kāt
imbricated, imbricates, imbricating
adjective
Overlapping evenly, as tiles or fish scales do.
Webster's New World
Ornamented with overlapping scales or a pattern like this.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
imbricated, imbricates, imbricating
To place (tiles, shingles, etc.) in overlapping order.
Webster's New World
To overlap.
Webster's New World
To be arranged with regular overlapping edges.
American Heritage

Origin of Imbricate

  • Latin imbricātus covered with roof tiles from imbrex imbric- roof tile from imber imbr- rain

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin imbricatus (“tiled”).

    From Wiktionary

Imbricate Sentence Examples

  • This aestivation is imbricate.

  • 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 variety of imbricate aestivation has been termed cochlear.

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IIMIMB

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