plicate
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of plicate
1690–1700; < Latin plicātus, past participle of plicāre to fold, ply 2; see -ate 1
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He has a great eye for detail, but he also has a touch of the epiphenomenal imbroglios: "we listened to the muffled crepitations coming from inside"; eyebrows "plicate" foreheads.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stipe short, erect, snow-white, longitudinally furrowed or plicate; the columella central, snow-white, various in shape, globose, obovoid, turbinate, and stipitate or sessile.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Creeping, dichotomous, proliferous; leaves ovate, the broad apex acutely 3-toothed; underleaves roundish-quadrangular, spreading, 4–6-toothed above; perianth curved, cylindric, plicate at the narrow apex and 3-toothed.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Stipe short, erect, blackish-brown, black at the base, longitudinally plicate, rising from a small hypothallus.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
The demands of more legible structure and more com plicated feeling drew Matisse away from the style he had largely invented.
From Time Magazine Archive
The internal coat was plicated, as if too large for the lumen.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In the midst of these movements remarkable changes are produced upon the rocks of the crust; they are plicated, fractured, crushed, rendered crystalline and even fused.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
In some places the crystal decorations are arranged in graceful flowing folds deeply plicated like stiff silken drapery.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
In the other type the solid crust has been plicated, corrugated and dislocated, especially along particular lines, and has attained its most stupendous disruption in lofty chains of mountains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
All the plicating and muffled crepitations do jar a little with a band who featured in their line-up a man who kept time by repeatedly hitting himself over the head with a metal beer tray.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
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