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Definitions for: Imbricate [adj] (botany) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
[v] overlap; "The roof tiles imbricate"
[v] place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Im"bri*cate, v. t.
To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an
imbricated surface.
Synonyms: imbricated, rough, unsmooth
See Also: lay, overlap, place, pose, position, put, set
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