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He has a great eye for detail, but he also has a touch of the epiphenomenal imbroglios: "we listened to the muffled crepitations coming from inside"; eyebrows "plicate" foreheads.
From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012
The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Aside from differences in scutellation, Leimadophis, Siphlophis, and Trypanurgos have the heads of the hemipenes terminating in a disc, and Ialtris has a plicate hemipenis.
From Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor Gunther by Duellman, William E.
P. plicate, diaphanous, whitish; s. capillary, brownish. flosculus, Q. P. white, umbil. sulcate; g. adnate, white; s. short, incurved, bay, apex pale.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. plicate, brownish; g. adnato-decurrent, white; s. elongated, straight, velvety, blackish brown, stuffed, rooting. cauticinalis, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George