imbricate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imbricātus (tiled).

Adjective

imbricate (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of imbricated (overlapping)
    • 1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VII, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc., 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:
      The pileus is sessile, or sometimes narrowed at the base into a short stem, the caps often numerous and crowded together in an overlapping or imbricate manner.

Verb

imbricate (third-person singular simple present imbricates, present participle imbricating, simple past and past participle imbricated)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) To overlap in a regular pattern.
  2. (linguistics) To undergo or cause to undergo imbrication.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

Participle

imbricāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of imbricātus

Verb

imbricāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of imbricō

Spanish

Verb

imbricate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of imbricar combined with te