imbricate in English

verb
1
arrange (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles.
these molds have spherical bodies composed of imbricated triangular plates
adjective
1
(of scales, sepals, plates, etc.) having adjacent edges overlapping.
It has terminal, fascicled inflorescences of several scarlet flowers covered by imbricate , scarious sheaths, and the labellum margins are fused with the column forming a short, saccate nectary spur.
adjective

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1. Corolla Apopetalous, the petals 4, imbricate, oblong, narrower than sepals, scarcely longer, sepaloid

2. AMU 2013: The flower of Calotropis has which of the following Aestivations? (A) Twisted (B) Imbricate (C) Valvate (D) Vexillary

3. When the margins of petals or sepals overlap one another without any specific direction, it is imbricate Aestivation.

4. Male shoots (Androecia) on lateral branches, of 3–6 pairs of imbricate (overlappping) bracts that are concave, otherwise similar to leaves; perianths obovoid, weakly plicate, mouth unlobed, with long, uniseriate cilia

5. ‘Aestivation of the calyx is cochlear descending, which is a new character within Ingeae.’ ‘Just as commonly, petal Aestivation was observed to be entirely imbricate.’ Word of the day

6. Corolla: Petals 5, Apopetalous, irregular papillionaceous, consisting of a posterior standard, two lateral wings, two anterior ones forming a keel which encloses stamen and pistil, vexillary / descendingly imbricate aestivation

7. The Yanqi Basin formed in Mesozoic and Cenozoic, is a hydrocarbon bearing basin, which has not only an imbricate , back, ramp thrust structural styles, but also a wrench structural style and so on.

8. The Cupules are often in tight clusters of three or two, cup‐ or deeply bowl‐shaped, valveless, covered with imbricate and appressed blunt scales, containing a single fruit in each cupule and enclosing about

9. Undoing the compactional effects caused by imbricate stacking of wedge slices, a synthetic pre-accretion porosity depth profile was developed, which bears strong resemblence to a characteristic profile from a reference drillhole in front of the Barbados accretionary complex.

10. Accretion is the process in which material from the outer plate and trench (during the periods of discontinuous subduction) is removed and added to the outer continental margin or by other mechanisms such as imbricate thrusting or a combination of folding and …

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