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Imbricated   Listen
adjective
Imbricated, Imbricate  adj.  
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 aestivation.
3.
In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Imbricated" Quotes from Famous Books



... is that curious and favourite kind called "Hen and Chickens." The flowers are double, and from the imbricate calyx of the normal flower there issue a number of smaller Daisies having straggling florets; the whole on one main ...
— Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood


Words linked to "Imbricated" :   botany, imbricate, phytology


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