v. 使成鳞状；覆盖（imbricate的过去分词）
adj. 覆瓦状的

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

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.

3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the
other, or a representation of such scales; as, an
imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.

imbricated \imbricated\ adj. (Botany)
overlapping or layered as scales or shingles; -- used
especially of leaves or bracts.

Syn: imbricate.
[WordNet 1.5]