imbricate

imbricate
—imbricately, adv. —imbricative, adj.
adj. /im"bri kit, -kayt'/; v. /im"bri kayt'/, adj., v., imbricated, imbricating.
adj.
1. overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
2. of, pertaining to, or resembling overlapping tiles, as decoration or drawings.
3. Biol. overlapping like tiles, as scales or leaves.
4. characterized by or as if by overlapping shingles.
v.t., v.i.
5. to overlap, as tiles or shingles.
[1650-60; < LL imbricatus tiled with imbrices, shaped like such a tile or tiling, equiv. to imbric- (s. of imbrex) IMBREX + -atus -ATE1]

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