imbricate

How To Use imbricate In A Sentence

• In the former, the flowers are monecious or perfect, consisting of imbricated solitary bracts. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
• Imbricated clasts indicate eastward palaeocurrents away from the metamorphic complex.
• Their scales, instead of being imbricated like those of land-snakes, form hexagons; and those on the belly, instead of being scutate and enlarged, are nearly of the same size and form as on other parts of the body. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
• The _spikelets_ are biseriate, loosely imbricate, ovate, acute, pubescent or villous (sometimes quite glabrous), sessile or shortly pedicelled; the pedicels have one or two (rarely more) long hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• It is unclear when the biotite gneisses were imbricated with the cover units or what controlled the imbrication.
• [CHAMA CORTICOSA] Shell thick, squamose, or concentrically laminated and imbricate; lamina striated, sinistral, crenulated interiorly; upper valve flat. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
• Pinnules toothed or entire nearly covered beneath with the large, thin, imbricated indusia which are orbicular with a narrow sinus, having the margins ragged and sparingly glanduliferous. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
• Calyx 4 imbricated sepals, orbiculate, slightly pubescent. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
• Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds.
• McCain, like Bush before him, is deeply imbricated in the radical religious constituency that buttresses his party. Shaun Jacob Halper: McCain's Reverends Right: His Faustian Bargain with Radical Christianity