imbricated

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In addition to the Grand Canyon, there’s Bears Ears, a pair of burnt-sienna buttes revered by Indigenous groups; and Grand Staircase-Escalante, an imbricated series of ascending rock layers punctuated with canyons and cliffs.

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

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

DIAPÉNSIA, L. Calyx of 5 concave imbricated coriaceous sepals.

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 Gray, Asa