imbricate

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

Ascending, with numerous offshoots; stem-leaves semi-vertical, obliquely spreading, roundish, acutely 2–4-toothed, those of the shoots closely imbricate, premorsely 2–4-denticulate; involucral leaves two, 3-toothed; perianth oblong.—In similar localities.

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

Head small: base of the wings covered with conspicuous, lengthened, imbricate scales.

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

P. subsessile, imbricate, pilei tongue-shaped, glabrous, subrugose, rufous then tan, edge involute, entire; g. closely crowded, rufescent. vulpinus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Sepals and petals in twos or threes, imbricate.

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

The pronouncer told her it meant a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees having pinnate leaves with imbricated petals.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021

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

From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2020

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015

I’ve been rummaging in my skull the past few days for the skeleton key that might spring open the interlocking chambers of rap phenomenon Kendrick Lamar’s intricate, imbricated, and self-implicating new album.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2015

Sepals imbricated in the bud, rarely persistent, petal-like.

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

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

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

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

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

Plant-body a thallus, dichotomous or subpalmately branching, usually innovating from the apex or beneath it, more or less thickened in the middle, and bearing numerous rootlets beneath and usually colored or imbricating scales.

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

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