Adjacent Words

imbricated definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles [syn: imbricate, imbricated]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Imbricate Im"bri*cate, Imbricated Im"bri*ca`ted, a. [L. imbricatus, p. p. of imbricare to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. imbrex, -icis, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. imber rain.] 1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile. 2. Lying over each other in regular order, so as to ``break joints,'' like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in [ae]stivation. 3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. See imbricate