Imbricate

Imbricate: arranged or appearing like the scales on a fish or the shingles on a roof.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Imbricate, overlapping like the shingles on a roof.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

Having only one row of leaflets, as in Tragopogon; op - pofed to Calycled and Imbricate. —

The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793