imbricate

Palpi very short, curved, hardly projecting beyond the head, closely compressed on the tongue, entirely covered with close imbricate scales, the tip naked.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

The pileus is corky, woody, hard, effuso-reflexed, imbricate, concrescent, subtomentose, then scabrous, uneven, reddish-yellow, then subferruginous, the margin acute.

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

The spikelets are about 1/8 inch, imbricate, a sessile and a stalked one from the top of each joint, greenish or purple.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

The leaf-sheath is glabrous, faintly and finely striate, distichously imbricate, compressed, somewhat keeled, outer margin ciliate, and bearded at the mouth.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

Marsiliaceæ, 700 Sporocarps sessile beneath the stem; small, floating, pinnately branched, with minute imbricate leaves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Once home to a bustling trade route, the region bears the marks of Morocco’s imbricated faiths and folkways.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Space travel was imbricated with science fiction, with dreams of heroic courage that continue to fuel unscientific fantasies.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2020

And just as it is unfair to ask progenitors to support projects indefinitely, it is disingenuous to promote online resources as finished when they are imbricated in cycles of growth and decay.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2015

Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015

Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Spikelets are closely imbricating in two series, sessile, solitary, the upper reduced to a small pedicel 1- to 2-flowered, the lowest few on the spike, imperfect, male or neuter.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

The inflorescence consists of a solitary spike with closely imbricating spikelets.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

Branches are many, short, crowded, densely clothed from the base with sessile, imbricating, much compressed deflexed spikelets.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

In this spikelet the rachilla bears a number of glumes alternating and imbricating.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

The leaf-sheath is smooth, imbricating, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari