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imbricate
adjective
- overlapping evenly, as tiles or fish scales do
- ornamented with overlapping scales or a pattern like this
transitive verb imbricated, imbricating
to place (tiles, shingles, etc.) in overlapping order
intransitive verb
to overlap
Related Forms:
- imbricately adverb
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