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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

Involucral leaves 2–4, 4-cleft; perianth terete, obovate, the mouth connivent, plicate, denticulate.

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

P. 4-7 cm. exp. umb. plicato-rugulose, pruinosely velvety, sooty umber; g. adnate, snow-white then tinged ochre; s. 6-12 cm. colour of p., apex constricted and plicate; milk white; sp. echinulate, 9-10.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The peridium is round, often slightly depressed above, plicate below, where it is abruptly contracted into a long stem-like base.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha