imbricate

How To Use imbricate In A Sentence

• 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.
• The imbricate fan of thrusts and soft layer are main structure features distinguishing thrust-nappe structure in magma-tic body area.
• _Involucels_ usually with two, rarely three spikelets, loosely imbricate, rounded at the base; the inner bristles are erect, dorsally flat, subulate-lanceolate, puberulous and with thickened margins, about 1/8 inch long. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Figurative speech imbricates the self with the world, through the senses. Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• Again, Hegel's move here seems to arise from the manner in which he imbricates the epistemological and the ontological. Larval Subjects .
• One of the most remarkable characters of the genus _Caecilia_, which it shares with about two-thirds of the known genera of the order, is the presence of thin, cycloid, imbricate scales imbedded in the skin, a character only to be detected by raising the epidermis near the dermal folds, which more or less completely encircle the body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Again, Hegel’s move here seems to arise from the manner in which he imbricates the epistemological and the ontological. Archive 2009-03-01
• The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• South-facing structures in Carboniferous rocks to the north of the facing confrontation zone are interpreted as back thrusts generated by northward underthrusting of the imbricate stack to the south of the zone.
• The caps are usually clustered and imbricated, that is, they overlap. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.