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Example sentences for "imbricated"

Lexicographically close words:
imbosomed; imbrace; imbraced; imbracing; imbricate; imbrodered; imbroglio; imbrue; imbrued; imbruted
  1. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.

  2. Defn: A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales.

  3. A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin.

  4. American grass (Glyceria Canadensis) with an ample panicle of rather large ovate spikelets, each one composed of imbricated parts and slightly resembling the rattle of the rattlesnake.

  5. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants.

  6. Defn: To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

  7. Hepaticæ; -- so called from the small imbricated scalelike leaves of most of the species.

  8. In the hairs of many animals, the cuticular or surface-cells of the shaft are distinctly imbricated (fig.

  9. When the scales are examined as they exist upon the wings of the Lepidoptera, they are found to be imbricated (Pl.

  10. The stem is reclining or procumbent, and the pale green imbricated leaves (fig.

  11. Handsome flowers of regular form, imbricated like a rose.

  12. Rose-flowered, shaped and imbricated like a blooded rose, the outer petals reflexed or rolled back, and the inner ones slightly recurved.

  13. We find the source of the gadroons and imbricated patterns in the repousse forms given by the Venetians to their enamelled copper-ware.

  14. A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales.

  15. To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

  16. These are covered by flesh and by small imbricated scales.

  17. It is never provided with imbricated scales.

  18. In all the Dipnoans the trunk is covered with imbricated cycloid scales and no bony plates, although sometimes the scales are firm and enameled.

  19. They usually cover the body more or less evenly and are imbricated like shingles on a roof, the free edge being turned backward.

  20. Two large follicles narrowed at the ends, woolly, the apex somewhat curved to one side, containing many imbricated seeds, each with a tuft of long hairs.

  21. Two follicles, sharp-pointed, channeled, containing many imbricated seeds each with an awn.

  22. The weave displayed is mostly twined, but some fine specimens of coiled and coiled imbricated were offered us in the dull, fascinating colors used by the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia, having probably been obtained in trade.

  23. In one of the tents I found a coiled, imbricated Thompson River basket in old red-browns and yellows.

  24. In this group the body is elongate, covered with keeled plates imbricated like shingles.

  25. In this genus the teeth are united at base, their tips free and imbricated over the surface of the jaw.

  26. Aphyllantheæ, grass-tree tribe; characterised by a rush-like habit and membranous imbricated bracts.

  27. The brownish-coloured abdomen, composed of imbricated rings, forms, in itself alone, upwards of half the body.

  28. The Chitons are very singular creatures, destitute of eyes, of tentacles, and without jaws; they bear upon their back in place of a shell a cuirass composed of imbricated and movable scales.

  29. New Zealand Spur, the spiral turns of which are sculptured in descending furrows, and studded with imbricated scales, which form a projecting edging round the margin of the shell, and give it a radiating form.

  30. Leaves oblong, narrow, obtuse, reflexed, lying imbricated over each other.

  31. It carries no tentacles, but is terminated by imbricated lamellae.

  32. They have creeping stems, and grow two or three feet high; the erect stems being clothed with imbricated leaves, in the axils of which these are produced.

  33. These imbricated scales are, however, only found in the genus Dianthus.

  34. The calyx is not furnished with appendages at the sinuses; the corolla is imbricated in the bud--i.

  35. Campanulate or hemispherical; six lines high, with many imbricated scales passing downward into loose, awl-shaped bracts.

  36. Of several series of imbricated scales, the outer foliaceous and loose.

  37. A well preserved specimen has a very elegant appearance, like certain compound flowers, which when half open are surrounded by imbricated and graduated scales.

  38. This species will frequently be found imbricated and very generally confluent.

  39. The imbricated form of the pileoli show very plainly in the illustration.

  40. This is quite a large, massive plant, growing in a sessile and imbricated manner.

  41. The plant is shelving and imbricated upon the side of a log, without any apparent stem.

  42. Corky or woody and extremely hard, very closely imbricated and connate, forming a subglobose polycephalous mass, Figure 334.

  43. It is found on beech wood, frequently imbricated and laterally confluent; a single pileus two to five inches in breadth and projecting two to four inches.

  44. It may be divided into two groups: one, those species having a cap and a central or lateral stem; the other, the species growing with or without a distinct cap, in large imbricated masses.

  45. They are composed of a great number of sessile, imbricated stamens, on a common axis.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imbricated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.