imbricated

IPA: ɪmbrʌkeɪtɪd

Examples of "imbricated" in Sentences

The four petals are imbricated in the bud.
The caps are usually clustered and imbricated, that is, they overlap.
Gender as a class-system is imbricated with economic class, and with race and nationality.
The personal is always imbricated with the landscape (a la Hardy): there is something so familiar in what is said
McCain, like Bush before him, is deeply imbricated in the radical religious constituency that buttresses his party.
And for all the dazzle of modernity the simple, stolid book is still the best way to tell an elaborate, imbricated, enchanted tale.
Moreover, part of the difficulty in reading Hegel lies in the fact that epistemological issues are always imbricated with ontological issues.
I walked to a fragrant climbing rose, Madame Alfred Carriere in spectacular bloom, the snowy imbricated petals almost glowing in the predawn shadows.
Senator Clinton's position is symptomatic of a deeply troubling, imbricated pattern of her campaign: selectively playing-by-the-rules, while universally claiming the high ground as both moral leader and political victim.
The hawks-bill turtle, which gains that name from its narrow, sharp, and curved beak, like that of a hawk, is also called the imbricated turtle, because its scales overlap each other at their extremities, as tiles are placed on the roofs of houses.