Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
imbricate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Botany) overlapping or layered as scales or shingles; -- used especially of leaves or bracts.
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- adjective
Overlapping , likescales orroof -tiles ;intertwined .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
Etymologies
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Examples
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The caps are usually clustered and imbricated, that is, they overlap.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The hawks-bill turtle, which gains that name from its narrow, sharp, and curved beak, like that of a hawk, is also called the imbricated turtle, because its scales overlap each other at their extremities, as tiles are placed on the roofs of houses.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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I walked to a fragrant climbing rose, Madame Alfred Carriere in spectacular bloom, the snowy imbricated petals almost glowing in the predawn shadows.
Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010
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And for all the dazzle of modernity the simple, stolid book is still the best way to tell an elaborate, imbricated, enchanted tale.
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Moreover, part of the difficulty in reading Hegel lies in the fact that epistemological issues are always imbricated with ontological issues.
Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Moreover, part of the difficulty in reading Hegel lies in the fact that epistemological issues are always imbricated with ontological issues.
Hegel is the trusted transit point Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The personal is always imbricated with the landscape (a la Hardy): there is something so familiar in what is said
Make This My Default Location (II) : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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McCain, like Bush before him, is deeply imbricated in the radical religious constituency that buttresses his party.
Shaun Jacob Halper: McCain's Reverends Right: His Faustian Bargain with Radical Christianity 2008
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Gender as a class-system is imbricated with economic class, and with race and nationality.
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Senator Clinton's position is symptomatic of a deeply troubling, imbricated pattern of her campaign: selectively playing-by-the-rules, while universally claiming the high ground as both moral leader and political victim.
Adam Hanft: Why Won't Hillary Clinton Release Her Tax Returns? 2008
yarb commented on the word imbricated
Thirty dollars' worth of dahlias--that was what the stranger had said. Theron hardly brought himself to credit the statement; but all the same it was apparent to even his uninformed eye that these huge, imbricated, flowering masses, with their extraordinary half-colors, must be unusual.
- Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware, ch. 25
August 8, 2008
qms commented on the word imbricated
The palate and eye are both sated
By pastry so much celebrated.
With passion and art
Her famous pear tart
Is meticulously imbricated.
November 30, 2015
gangerh commented on the word imbricated
Very good, qms.
November 30, 2015
qms commented on the word imbricated
I thank you, gangerh, and my wife, famed for her pear tart, also thanks you.
December 1, 2015
fbharjo commented on the word imbricated
Bractsome! What' a layover ( under wonder)!
December 1, 2015