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Imbricated

adjective
1.
Used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles.  Synonym: imbricate.






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... with bright, intelligent eyes, and a body armed all over, like the armadillo's, with a continuous coat of hard and horny mail. This coat is not formed of scales, as in most fish, but of toughened skin, as in crocodiles and alligators, arranged in two overlapping rows of imbricated shields, exactly like the round tiles so common on the roofs of Italian cottages. The fish walks, or rather shambles along ungracefully, by the shuffling movement of a pair of stiff spines placed close ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... Lepidostrobus by M. Adolphe Brongniart, are met with. (See Figure 457.) They often form the nucleus of concretionary balls of clay-ironstone, and are well preserved, exhibiting a conical axis, around which a great quantity of scales were compactly imbricated. The opinion of M. Brongniart that the Lepidostrobus is the fruit of Lepidodendron has been confirmed, for these strobili or fruits have been found terminating the tip of a branch of a well-characterised Lepidodendron ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Imbricated" :   rough, botany, phytology, unsmooth, imbricate



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