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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
The margin of the cap, especially in old plants, is somewhat wavy or plicate as in Lactarius fuliginosus.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The pileus is entirely white, membranaceous, convex, somewhat papillate, smooth, sulcate and plicate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Acanthophippium.—A small genus of terrestrial plants with oblong pseudo-bulbs, and broad, plicate leaves.
From Orchids by James O'Brien
The demands of more legible structure and more com plicated feeling drew Matisse away from the style he had largely invented.
From Time Magazine Archive
The internal coat was plicated, as if too large for the lumen.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In the other type the solid crust has been plicated, corrugated and dislocated, especially along particular lines, and has attained its most stupendous disruption in lofty chains of mountains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
It is in a great mountain-chain that the extraordinary complication of plicated and faulted structures in the crust of the earth can be most impressively beheld.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
In some places the crystal decorations are arranged in graceful flowing folds deeply plicated like stiff silken drapery.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
All the plicating and muffled crepitations do jar a little with a band who featured in their line-up a man who kept time by repeatedly hitting himself over the head with a metal beer tray.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
