Definition of "imbricate"
Alternative form of imbricated (“overlapping”)
Quotations
The pileus is sessile, or sometimes narrowed at the base into a short stem, the caps often numerous and crowded together in an overlapping or imbricate manner.
1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VII, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc., 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt
verb
third-person singular simple present imbricates, present participle imbricating, simple past and past participle imbricated