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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.Definition 2024
imbricated
imbricated
English
Adjective
imbricated (comparative more imbricated, superlative most imbricated)
- Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
- 1851, G. F. Richardson; Thomas Wright, “Fossil Botany”, in An Introduction to Geology, and Its Associate Sciences, Mineralogy, Fossil Biology, and Palæontology, new, rev. and considerably enl. edition, London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, OCLC 948023952, page 171:
- When the leaves and small and densely imbricated, they are generally considered to belong either to lycopodiaceæ or coniferæ; but there is so little to distinguish these families in a fossil state, that there is scarcely any means of demonstrating to which of these such genera as lycopodites, lycopodendron, juniperites, taxites, &c., and the like, actually belong.
- 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
- He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos.
- 1996, Russell Hoban, Fremder, Bloomsbury 2003, p. 50:
- the spaceport filled up with emptiness and that imbricated silence made up of the low roar of the air-cycling system, the hum of the robot sweepers, the sizzle of the noctolux lamps, and the sound of distant footsteps.
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