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Imbricate
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.
Imbricate
Imbricate Im"bri*cate, v. t.
To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an
imbricated surface.
Meaning of Imbricate from wikipedia
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describe leaf vernation.
classes of
aestivation include:
crumpled decussate imbricate –
overlapping contorted or
twisted –
every petal or
sepal is
outside its...
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Imbricated clasts, with an
implied flow
direction of left to right....
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Imbrication is the
arrangement of
planar bodies such that they
stack in a
consistent fashion -
rather like a
toppled run of dominoes. In roofing, imbrication...
- many times,
forming a
series of fault-bounded
thrust slices known as
imbricates or horses, each with the
geometry of a fault-bend fold of
small displacement...
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Acacia imbricata,
commonly known as
imbricate wattle, is a
shrub species that is
endemic to
South Australia. It
grows to
between 1 and 2 m (3 ft 3 in...
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Sphagnum affine, the
imbricate bogmoss, is a
species of peat moss or
sphagnum moss
which is
exploited to make
commercial peat products. This moss has...
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There are
three species of
lizard named imbricate alligator lizard:
Barisia imbricata Barisia ciliaris Barisia jonesi This page is an
index of articles...
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often have
peltate scales, as
opposed to the
imbricate cones described above,
though some have
imbricate scales. The
cones are
usually small, 0.3–6 cm...
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group of
imbricate protists in the
phylum Cercozoa. They are
unicellular eukaryotes characterized by a cell body
covered in
large imbricate scales, and...
- a
species of fern
known by the
common names narrowleaf swordfern and
imbricate sword fern. It is
native to
western North America from
British Columbia...
