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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

Stipe very short, plicate, red-brown, arising from a small hypothallus.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Stipe long, erect or inclined, plicate, red-brown, rising from a small hypothallus.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

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 Hard, Miron Elisha