Im’bri-cāte or Im’bri-cā’ted, a.

a. [Lat. imbricatus, p. p. of imbricare, to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter-tile; imbrex, -icis, a hollow tile, gutter-tile; Fr. imbricé, imbriqué, It. imbricato.]

1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter-tile.
2. Lying over each other in regular order, like tiles or shingles on a roof, as the scales on the leaf-buds of plants, the cup of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in estivation.