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Antonyms for imbricate

Grammar : Verb
Spell : adjective im-bri-kit, -keyt; verb im-bri-keyt
Phonetic Transcription : adjective ˈɪm brɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt; verb ˈɪm brɪˌkeɪt

Definition of imbricate

Origin :
  • 1704 (implied in imbricated), from Latin imbricatus "covered with tiles," past participle of imbricare "to cover with rain tiles" (see imbrication). As an adjective from 1650s. Related: Imbricated; imbricating.
  • As in lap : verb overlap
  • As in overlap : verb lie over something else
Example sentences :
  • The first and oldest of these varieties is generally called Scale or Imbricate armour.
  • Extract from : « Armour & Weapons » by Charles John Ffoulkes
  • Calyx 5-parted, valvate in the staminate flowers, imbricate in the pistillate.
  • Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
  • Head small: base of the wings covered with conspicuous, lengthened, imbricate scales.
  • Extract from : « Zoological Illustrations, Volume III » by William Swainson
  • Scales on the back rounded, quincuncial, imbricate; those on the belly similar to those on the back and on the sides.
  • Extract from : « Reptiles and Birds » by Louis Figuier
  • Head large, covered with small rather unequal not imbricate scales.
  • Extract from : « Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. » by J Lort Stokes
  • The tail round, tapering, with imbricate rhombic seales, with the keels forming longitudinal ridges.
  • Extract from : « Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. » by J Lort Stokes
  • In habit it is like that of the tea, but the buds are covered with imbricate scales.
  • Extract from : « Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The » by William Griffith
  • Spikelets are narrowly lanceolate, closely appressed and imbricate, 1/6 inch long excluding the awn and very variable.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses » by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
  • Sepals and petals colored alike, in three or more rows of three, imbricate.
  • Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
  • Sporocarps sessile beneath the stem; small, floating, pinnately branched, with minute imbricate leaves.
  • Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray

Synonyms for imbricate

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