Imbricating [verb]

The first and oldest of these varieties is generally called Scale or Imbricate armour.

Sepals and petals colored alike, in three or more rows of three, imbricate.

Sepals and petals imbricate, each in two rows of three (rarely in twos or fours).

Sporocarps sessile beneath the stem; small, floating, pinnately branched, with minute imbricate leaves.

Antheridia 3–20, in the axils of small saccate leaves, which are scarcely imbricate or crowded into terminal heads.

Imbricate: arranged or appearing like the scales on a fish or the shingles on a roof.

Diagram of a flower of Linden, showing the calyx valvate and corolla imbricate in the bud, etc.

The imbricate and the convolute modes sometimes vary one into the other, especially in the corolla.

Spikelets are narrowly lanceolate, closely appressed and imbricate, 1/6 inch long excluding the awn and very variable.

Scales smooth, ovate, imbricate, those of the belly 6-sided.