imbricate

Diagram of a flower of Linden, showing the calyx valvate and corolla imbricate in the bud, etc.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

The pileus is sessile, or sometimes narrowed at the base into a short stem, the caps often numerous and crowded together in an overlapping or imbricate manner.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

The head of this voracious animal is flat and imbricate; several of the under teeth enter into and pass through the upper jaw; the nape is naked; on the tail are two rough lateral lines.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The leaves are small and imbricate, and are borne on flattened branches, which are apt to be mistaken for the leaves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

The imbricate and the convolute modes sometimes vary one into the other, especially in the corolla.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

Long and lithe, complexly imbricated, strange: Here is contact.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2020

Space travel was imbricated with science fiction, with dreams of heroic courage that continue to fuel unscientific fantasies.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2020

And just as it is unfair to ask progenitors to support projects indefinitely, it is disingenuous to promote online resources as finished when they are imbricated in cycles of growth and decay.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2015

Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015

Involucre shorter than the flowers, of many much imbricated scales.

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 Asa Gray

Spikelets are closely imbricating in two series, sessile, solitary, the upper reduced to a small pedicel 1- to 2-flowered, the lowest few on the spike, imperfect, male or neuter.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

The leaves are for the most part palmately-lobed, and the flowers are regular, consisting of five sepals, five imbricating petals, alternating with five glandules at their base, ten stamens and a beaked ovary.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

The leaf-sheath is smooth, imbricating, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

Flowers at the extremities of the branches, 1½ in. long, composed of numerous imbricating, scale-like petals, curving inwards, and coloured crimson.

From Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation by W. Watson

In this spikelet the rachilla bears a number of glumes alternating and imbricating.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari