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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pli'cate or Pli'ca-ted, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. plicatus, p. p. of plicare, to fold.] (Bot.) Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.

An illustration of a fan-shaped, pleated leaf on a stem.
Plicate Leaf.