Definitions for imbricate

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imbricate im·bri·cate

Spelling: [adjective im-bri-kit, -keyt; verb im-bri-keyt]

IPA: /adjective ˈɪm brɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt; verb ˈɪm brɪˌkeɪt/

Imbricate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 440 anagrams from letters in imbricate (abceiimrt).

Definitions for imbricate

adjective

1. overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
2. of, relating to, or resembling overlapping tiles, as decoration or drawings.
3. Biology. overlapping like tiles, as scales or leaves.
4. characterized by or as if by overlapping shingles.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to overlap, as tiles or shingles.

Origin of imbricate

1650-60; Late Latin imbricātus tiled with imbrices, shaped like such a tile or tiling, equivalent to imbric- (stem of imbrex) imbrex + -ātus Examples for imbricate

The first and oldest of these varieties is generally called Scale or imbricate armour.

Sporocarps sessile beneath the stem; small, floating, pinnately branched, with minute imbricate leaves.

Head large, covered with small rather unequal not imbricate scales.

Sepals and petals colored alike, in three or more rows of three, imbricate.

Calyx 5-parted, valvate in the staminate flowers, imbricate in the pistillate.

Scales on the back rounded, quincuncial, imbricate; those on the belly similar to those on the back and on the sides.

The tail round, tapering, with imbricate rhombic seales, with the keels forming longitudinal ridges.

In habit it is like that of the tea, but the buds are covered with imbricate scales.

Head small: base of the wings covered with conspicuous, lengthened, imbricate scales.

Spikelets are narrowly lanceolate, closely appressed and imbricate, 1/6 inch long excluding the awn and very variable.