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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Imbricate

· Im·bri·cate · IPA
01 a. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
  1. 1.
    Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
  2. 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 æstivation.
  3. 3.
    In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.
02 v. t. To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.
  1. 1.
    To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.