imbricate's Usage Examples:

As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds.

Their cones are composed of thin, rounded, closely imbricated scales, each with a more or less conspicuous bract springing from the base.

At other times they are at different levels, and are applied over each other, so as to be imbricated, as in lilac, and in the outer scales of sycamore; and occasionally the margin of one leaf overlaps that of another, while it in its turn is overlapped by a third, so as to be twisted, spiral or contortive.

When a series of adjacent isoclinal overfolds has passed into a series of thrusts (see Fault), the so-called "imbricated" structure (Fr.

Though generally nearly smooth, or but slightly scaly, the surface of some hairs is imbricated; that is to say, shows projecting scale-like processes, as in some bats, while in the twotoed sloth (Choloepus) they are longitudinally grooved or fluted.

Thus, in Malvaceae the corolla is contorted and the calyx valuate, or reduplicate; in St John's-wort the calyx is imbricate, and the corolla contorted.

The cones, about the size of a small walnut, bear spirally arranged imbricated scales which subtend the three-angled winged seeds.

Later the ciliated ring or velum disappears and seven imbricated calcareous plates, made up of flattened spicules, are formed on the dorsal surface.

With very few exceptions, the integuments form imbricate scalelike folds arranged with the greatest regularity; they are small and pluriserial on the upper parts of the body and tail, large and uniserial on the abdomen, and generally biserial on the lower side of the tail.

, has pale purple flowers in closely imbricated spikes.

The leaves are small and imbricate, and are borne on flattened branches, which are apt to be mistaken for the leaves.

"The cones, about the size of a small walnut, bear spirally arranged imbricated scales which subtend the three-angled winged seeds.

They are small insects, having straight antennae, and a compressed, usually very short abdomen with the second or second and third segments greatly developed, and the rest imbricated, and concealing the partially coiled ovipositor.

Synonyms:

rough, imbricated, unsmooth,

Antonyms:

smooth, deglycerolize, disarrange, divest,