Examples of 'imbricate' in a sentence
Meaning of "imbricate"
imbricate (verb) - This phrase is used in botany to describe how overlapping or layered petals or scales are arranged in a plant
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- Alternative form of imbricated (“overlapping”)
- To overlap in a regular pattern.
- To undergo or cause to undergo imbrication.
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The tepals are imbricate and petaloid.
These imbricate thrust faults are shallower in depth than the main Flores thrust.
There are five or six imbricate petals.
These two dimensions imbricate one another and should be seen as a continuum.
This pluton is composed of three concentrically imbricate magmatic groups.
The sepals are not imbricate and are wider in their upper half.
The head is thickly covered with keeled, imbricate scales.
A number of species develop imbricate leaves which hold tightly to the growing surface.
The flowers are small with a basally connate corolla, that are imbricate or rolled up lengthwise.
Imbricate a long lived shrub distributed via seeds, and broadly distributed within South America.
Flowers are fleshy with imbricate inflorescence.
The pistillate flowers are also yellow with three cupped sepals and three longer, imbricate petals.
As you can see, we imbricate three dictionaries.
But A. socialis has contiguous areoles while those of A. schlecheri can be imbricate.
Most common animal to have an imbricate cuticle 's a dog.
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Ventral scales larger than those on the throat, cycloid, imbricate.
The crown is covered with small imbricate or smooth scales, none of which is enlarged.
Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate.
The distal-most subtending leaves imbricate and enclose the fertile region.
They were flattened against each other ( appressed ) and scale-like imbricate.
Pretelson has small, semiangular epimera with imbricate scale ornamentation at the margins.
Back covered with very small granular scales, abdominal scales a little larger, flat, imbricate.
Pretelson has large rounded epimera with imbricate scales overlapping, similar to fish scales.
The head is broad, flat, distinct from the neck and covered with small, imbricate scales.
The pretelson has large, rounded epimera with imbricate scale ornamentation at the margins.
Abdominal scales small, smooth, rounded, imbricate.
Excepting for the head, snakes have imbricate scales, overlapping like the tiles on a roof.
Abdominal scales large, smooth, rounded, imbricate.
In the Mexican context, these debates inevitably became imbricate with understandings of indigeneity and mestizaje.
Corolla, Greenish yellow or creamy white, tubular, four-lobed ; lobes imbricate in bud.
Have cones that are imbricate ( that is, with scales overlapping each other like fish scales ).
Their bodies are covered with keeled scales that are imbricate ( overlapping ) with apical pits.
Calyx, Sepals three, imbricate in bud, reflexed or spreading, somewhat veined, early deciduous.
Typically these flowers have a vexillary ( i.e. descendingly imbricate or overlapping ) aestivation.
Pistils, Indefinite, imbricate on the long slender receptacle.
Corolla, Petals five, oblong, hairy, spreading or reflexed, imbricate in bud.
The calyx is small, four-lobed, imbricate in the bud, acute, margins ciliate, persistent.
Medulla is 14 microns in diameter. Continuous cortex. Imbricate scales.
Its flowers contain an equal number of distinct, imbricate petals and some 4 to 5 connate sepals.
Its southern foothills, along the line Lungötz - Werfenweng - Werfen, belong to an imbricate zone ( Schuppenzone ).
Reef-dwelling species, such as Aipysurus, do have imbricate scales to protect against the sharp coral.
Corolla, Petals six, in two rows, imbricate in the bud.
I am thinking sheep . Imbricate scales.
