plicate
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of plicate
1690–1700; < Latin plicātus, past participle of plicāre to fold, ply 2; see -ate 1
Example Sentences
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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 or bent, and slightly curved at the apex, varying in color from rusty yellow to reddish brown, longitudinally plicate, arising from a small, circular hypothallus.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
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 Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
Ascending; leaves subcomplicate, entire, the lower lobe ovate, acute or bidentate, concave, the upper small and tooth-like; involucral leaves 3–5-cleft; perianth oblong, obtuse, plicate.
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 Gray, Asa
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