'Imbricate' definitions:
Definition of 'imbricate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles [syn: imbricate, imbricated]
verb
Place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles"
verb
Overlap; "The roof tiles imbricate"
Definition of 'Imbricate'
From: GCIDE
- Imbricate \Im"bri*cate\, Imbricated \Im"bri*ca`ted\, a. [L. imbricatus, p. p. of imbricare to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. imbrex, -icis, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. imber rain.]
- 1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in [ae]stivation. [1913 Webster]
- 3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Imbricate'
From: GCIDE
- Imbricate \Im"bri*cate\, v. t. To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface. [1913 Webster]