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
The pileus is membraneous, ovate or campanulate, moist or somewhat watery, obtuse, plicate, striate on the margin, yellow.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
P. ovate then campan. plicate, subsquamulose or scurfy, disc umber and becoming depr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The pileus is entirely white, membranaceous, convex, somewhat papillate, smooth, sulcate and plicate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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
At the base, for some 800 ft., there is a complex of crystalline rocks of early geological age, consisting of gneiss, schist, slate and other rocks, greatly plicated and traversed by dikes and granite intrusions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 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
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 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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