imbricate

Once home to a bustling trade route, the region bears the marks of Morocco’s imbricated faiths and folkways.

The pronouncer told her it meant a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees having pinnate leaves with imbricated petals.

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

There are a few of note, including Arpita Singh, an Indian artist born a decade before partition, whose forceful, thickly daubed paintings of fleshy and contorted women imbricate mythic and everyday imagery.

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