The caps are usually clustered and imbricated, that is, they overlap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

Gender as a class-system is imbricated with economic class, and with race and nationality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: The Governator Calls the Question (again)] Reference

The snow was lipped and patterned by the wind into shapes like the imbricated scales on a fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

It's a Foucauldian thing: we are imbricated within the power relations we simultaneously resist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mothering Mary] Reference

Petals of the corolla vary in number from five to nine, imbricated, the inner ones much the largest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

For an astute account of the way the heart becomes emblematic of and imbricated in contestations about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Shelley's Pod People'] Reference

The petals are flat, and rest in an imbricated manner, one on the other, as in some varieties of the Anemone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The personal is always imbricated with the landscape (a la Hardy): there is something so familiar in what is said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make This My Default Location (II) : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Walls under walls under walls, fortifications buried under successive layers of fear and power: the imbricated, urban Gothic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Still more Cold War buried structures] Reference

+Cap+ may measure 8 inches in breadth, and is of a reddish-yellow color, overlapping like the shingles of a roof (imbricated).    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

And for all the dazzle of modernity the simple, stolid book is still the best way to tell an elaborate, imbricated, enchanted tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi David Wolpe: The Sacred Word] Reference

Another new tree I found is probably a Careya or Barringtonia; the young inflorescence is nearly globular, and clothed with imbricated scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

They are not formed at right angles on the cob, as in most varieties of corn, but point upward, and rest in an imbricated manner, one over the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

On the other hand, in the opus incertum, the rubble, lying in courses and imbricated, makes a wall which, though not beautiful, is stronger than the reticulatum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

But that the station's structure itself had somehow become imbricated with the space-time tangle outside it had become an accepted — if not precisely an acknowledged — fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Calyx with 5 erect segments, imbricated, caducous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Calyx deeply cleft in 5 imbricated, ovate, fleshy parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Calyx 4 imbricated sepals, orbiculate, slightly pubescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Mexico, remarkable for their imbricated shell; stellari found in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference

= -- Buds ovate, 1/8 inch long, covered with imbricated brown scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

It is, in fact, several fights interconnected and imbricated in each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafila] Reference

Corolla, numerous imbricated, spatulate petals with ravelled or fringed ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

= Crepidotus applanatus = Fr., is a larger species, shelving and often imbricated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

And because states as well as financial institutions are imbricated in correlation.    From Wordnik.com.  [jane dark's sugarhigh!] Reference

Two follicles, sharp-pointed, channeled, containing many imbricated seeds each with an awn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

It is circular, with a slightly domical imbricated roof, and is decorated with elegant engaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

In the former, the flowers are monecious or perfect, consisting of imbricated solitary bracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference

Pistillate: Less in number, at the base of the spike; perianth of 3 imbricated leaflets; ovary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

= -- Buds 1/8-1/4 inch long, ovoid or conical, covered with imbricated, brownish, minutely ciliate scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

It grows on dead trunks and branches, usually in crowded clusters, the caps often overlapping or imbricated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

The role of the music video in pop music's imbricated empire around this moment is a profound and puzzling one.    From Wordnik.com.  [jane dark's sugarhigh!] Reference

The = caps = are shelving, closely overlapping in shingled fashion (imbricated), and joined at the narrowed base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

The category is now under fire as essentialist, provincially western, imbricated in colonial projects and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [An und für sich] Reference

He has four wings; two large ones with imbricated feathers grow from his shoulders, while a smaller pair are visible beneath them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference

Common calyx cylindrical, of many imbricated, awl-shaped scales, the lower ones smaller; within are 20 or more hermaphrodite disk-flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference