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Webster 1913 Edition
Imbricated
{
Im′bri-cate
,Im′bri-caˊted
, }Adj.
[L.
imbricatus
, p. p. of imbricare
to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. imbrex
, -icis
, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. imber
rain.] 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 æstivation.
3.
In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales;
as, an
imbricated
surface; an imbricated
pattern.