The Collaborative International Dictionary
imbricated \imbricated\ adj. (Botany) overlapping or layered as scales or shingles; -- used especially of leaves or bracts.
Syn: imbricate.
Wiktionary
a. overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
WordNet
adj. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles [syn: imbricate]
Usage examples of "imbricated".
They thus become imbricated with their midribs parallel to the petiole.
The leaflets move towards the apex of the pinna and become imbricated, and the pinnae then look like bits of dangling string.
It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal.
It was fitted, dovetailed, imbricated, rectilinear, symmetrical, and deathly.
As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens.