imbrex
Americannoun
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a convex tile, used especially in ancient Rome to cover joints in a tile roof.
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Architecture. one of the scales in ornamental imbrication.
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Etymology
Origin of imbrex
1855–60; < Latin, equivalent to imbr- (stem of imber ) rainstorm + -ex noun suffix
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Imbricatum is from imbrex, a tile, referring to the surface of the cap being torn into triangular scales, seeming to overlap one another like shingles on a roof.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Masculine: apex, peak; cōdex, tree-trunk; grex, flock; imbrex, tile; pollex, thumb; vertex, summit; calix, cup.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
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