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Groups of festooned lines, either painted or engraved, and arranged to give the effect of imbricate scales, form also a favorite motive.

From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by William Henry Holmes

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

Calyx 5-parted, valvate in the staminate flowers, imbricate in the pistillate.

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

These fans consisted of the trains of peacocks or ostriches, whose quills were set in a long stem, so as to imbricate the plumes in the gradations of their natural growth.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

Diagram of a flower of Linden, showing the calyx valvate and corolla imbricate in the bud, etc.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

Long and lithe, complexly imbricated, strange: Here is contact.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2020

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

Flowers at the extremities of the branches, 1½ in. long, composed of numerous imbricating, scale-like petals, curving inwards, and coloured crimson.

From Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation by W. Watson

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

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

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

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

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