IMBRICATE; IMBRICATED

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

2.
a.

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 æstivation.

3.
a.

In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.


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