Imbricated

Quick meaning: Imbricated is an adjective meaning Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.

Meaning

Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.

Example Sentences

A leaf consists of two or three pairs of pinnae, each bearing many small leaflets. These, when the plant is asleep, are directed forwards and become imbricated.

the spaceport filled up with emptiness and that imbricated silence made up of the low roar of the air-cycling system, the hum of the robot sweepers, the sizzle of the noctolux lamps, and the sound of distant footsteps.

As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; […]

Imbricated as competitors in the international system of imperialism, such regimes were far more invested in maximising their own power than in independent workers' movements, and were perfectly willing, where they could not control them, to betray, attack, or destroy them.

Synonyms for imbricated

Depending on context, synonyms include rough, imbricate, unsmooth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rough, unsmooth, intertwined, nested, embedded, entwined.

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