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adj. Having regularly arranged, overlapping edges, as roof tiles or fish scales.

v. To overlap in a regular pattern.

verb-intransitive. To be arranged with regular overlapping edges.

adj. Having regular overlapping edges; intertwined.

v. To overlap in a regular pattern.

adj. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

adj. 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 æstivation.

adj. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales

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

To lay or lap one over another, so as to break joint, as or like tiles or shingles, either with parts all in one horizontal row or circle (as in the estivation of a calyx or corolla, when at least one piece must be wholly external and one internal), or with the tips of lower parts covering the bases of higher ones in a succession of rows or spiral ranks.

To overlap serially.

Bent and hollowed like a gutter-tile or pantile.

Lying one over another or lapping, like tiles on a roof; parallel, with a straight surface, and lying or lapping one over another, as the scales on the leaf-buds of plants, the scales of fishes and of reptiles, or the feathers of birds.

Decorated with a pattern resembling a surface of lapping tiles.

Consisting of lines or curves giving a resemblance to a surface of overlapping tiles: as, an imbricate pattern.

v. place so as to overlap

v. overlap

adj. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles

"Snarge (the mess left when a bird collides with a plane, I read about how the birds are indentified by said remains); imbricate (some research on humor produced this one -- to overlap like tiles or fish scales) and euglossine (a type of bee that pollinates orchids)."

unsmooth    rough    imbricated   

imbricated    imbricates    imbricating   

position    pose    put    set    lay   

imbricate antennæ    imbricate elytra   

imbrication