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imbricate

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Definitions of imbricate in various dictionaries:

verb - place so as to overlap

verb - overlap

adj - used especially of leaves or bracts

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Possible Crossword Clues
I'm to whip in the cheese to make it overlap
I am the cat among dairy produce, going to overlap?

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Aug 30 2006 The Telegraph - Cryptic
May 17 2000 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword

Possible Dictionary Clues
arrange (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles.
Having regularly arranged, overlapping edges, as roof tiles or fish scales.
To overlap in a regular pattern.
To be arranged with regular overlapping edges.
overlap
place so as to overlap
used especially of leaves or bracts overlapping or layered as scales or shingles

Imbricate description
Aestivation or estivation refers to the positional arrangement of the parts of a flower within a flower bud before it has opened. Aestivation is also sometimes referred to as praefoliation or prefoliation, but these terms may also mean vernation: the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud. * Aestivation can be an important taxonomic diagnostic; for example Malvaceae flower buds have valvate sepals, with the exception of the genera Fremontodendron and Chiranthodendron, which have sometimes been misplaced as a result. * The terms used to describe aestivation are the same as those used to describe leaf vernation. * Classes of aestivation include:* imbricate overlapping * contorted or twisted every petal or sepal is outside its neighbour on one margin, and inside its neighbour on the other margin * cochleate spirally twisted * contortiplicate contorted and also plicate * quincuncial with five parts, where two petals or sepals are outside all others, two are inside all others, and the fifth i

Imbricate description

Aestivation or estivation refers to the positional arrangement of the parts of a flower within a flower bud before it has opened. Aestivation is also sometimes referred to as praefoliation or prefoliation, but these terms may also mean vernation: the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud.
* Aestivation can be an important taxonomic diagnostic; for example Malvaceae flower buds have valvate sepals, with the exception of the genera Fremontodendron and Chiranthodendron, which have sometimes been misplaced as a result.
* The terms used to describe aestivation are the same as those used to describe leaf vernation.
* Classes of aestivation include:* imbricate overlapping
* contorted or twisted every petal or sepal is outside its neighbour on one margin, and inside its neighbour on the other margin
* cochleate spirally twisted
* contortiplicate contorted and also plicate
* quincuncial with five parts, where two petals or sepals are outside all others, two are inside all others, and the fifth i

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