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plicate

[plahy-keyt, -kit, plahy-keyt] / ˈplaɪ keɪt, -kɪt, ˈplaɪ keɪt /




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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 long, flexuous, bent at the apex, plicate, pale brown to yellow-brown, darker toward the base.

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

Stipe short, erect, blackish-brown, black at the base, longitudinally plicate, rising from a small hypothallus.

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

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)




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