imbricated

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With some undescribed species of Boronia, a new genus allied to Eriostemon has been observed on the north-western shores, in the parallel of 15 degrees South, having a remarkable pinnatified fimbriated calyx.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker

If the fimbriated extremity of the tube is blocked, the blood accumulates in the tube and makes an haematosalpynx.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

The pilei are imbricated, fibrous, scaly, margin fimbriated, at first dirty white.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

In incomplete tubal abortion the maternal blood may slowly trickle from the fimbriated extremity of the tube into the abdominal cavity, become encapsulated, and thus form an haematocele.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Squames: the flattened, fimbriated or spine-like marginal processes of the pygidium in Diaspinae, other than the lobes and true spines: = "plates," of Comst.; or "scaly hairs" of Maskell.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.