Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Arranged in folds like those of a fan; pleated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, folded like a fan; plaited: as, a plicate leaf.
- In zoology and anatomy, plaited, plexed, or folded; formed into a plication.
- In entomology, having parallel raised lines which are sharply cut on one side, but on the other descend gradually to the next line, as a surface; plaited or folded. Also plicative, plicated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Plaited; folded like a fan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology
Folded multiple timeslengthwise like afan , usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf;corrugated ;pleated . - verb To
fold orpleat (usually used in passive).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fold into pleats,
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I shall do my job - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
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SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
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SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
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SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
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BOULDEN: The Football Association now has to find someone who is brave enough to face the press, mold millionaire players and plicate the fans.
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The whorls are plicate, with a necklace-like series of nodules at the sutures; and the shell is covered with dark red-brown spots, suggestive of its specific name.
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A fine, solid, brown species, generally more or less eroded, and with a peculiarly strongly plicate columella.
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From now on it would both monitor and du-plicate the information their quarry was receiving.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Why get hi there where the mass of a solar system will com-plicate our escape plan?
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
reesetee commented on the word plicate
Folded into plaits, like a fan.
June 12, 2007