Plicate

Word PLICATE
Character 7
Hyphenation pli cate
Pronunciations /ˈplaɪ.keɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Plicate"

What do we mean by plicate?

Arranged in folds like those of a fan; pleated. adjective

In botany, folded like a fan; plaited: as, a plicate leaf.

In zoology and anatomy, plaited, plexed, or folded; formed into a plication.

In entomology, having parallel raised lines which are sharply cut on one side, but on the other descend gradually to the next line, as a surface; plaited or folded. Also plicative, plicated.

Plaited; folded like a fan. adjective

Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated. adjective

To fold or pleat (usually used in passive). verb

Fold into pleats, verb

To fold or pleat (usually used in passive).

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The word "plicate" in example sentences

The Department of Departments would like ur repoorts in elebenty-plicate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

BOULDEN: The Football Association now has to find someone who is brave enough to face the press, mold millionaire players and plicate the fans. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The whorls are plicate, with a necklace-like series of nodules at the sutures; and the shell is covered with dark red-brown spots, suggestive of its specific name. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A fine, solid, brown species, generally more or less eroded, and with a peculiarly strongly plicate columella. ❋ Unknown (2007)

From now on it would both monitor and du-plicate the information their quarry was receiving. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

Why get hi there where the mass of a solar system will com-plicate our escape plan? ❋ Cook, Glen (1985)

"This is going to com-plicate the hell out of my notes." ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1984)

Barthes, in replying (Critique et vérité, 1966), criticized cogently the limitations of conventional historical criticism, its ignoring of the changing “life” of a work through history, its obtuse - ness toward ambiguity and symbolism, but he goes far beyond this in asserting the right of criticism to “du - plicate” a work of art. ❋ REN (1968)

By combining these two ratios, we find that the velocity of the radial stream will be in the ses-plicate ratio of the distances inversely. ❋ T. Bassnett (N/A)

Seeing, therefore, that the periodic times of the planets observe the direct ses-plicate ratio of the distances, and that it is consonant to all analogy to suppose the contiguous parts of the vortex to have the same ratio, we find that the density of the ethereal medium in the solar vortex, is directly as the square roots of the distances from the axis. ❋ T. Bassnett (N/A)

The plicate striate character of the cap is singular among the species of this genus, and is shared by another species, = G. coprinoides = Pk. FLAMMULA Fr. In the genus _Flammula_, the pileus is fleshy, stem fleshy-fibrous, and the gills adnate to decurrent. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The plant is recognized by the pale yellow color of the caps and the plicate striate character of the margin. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The = pileus = is whitish or gray, or grayish brown, very thin, oval, then bell-shaped, minutely scaly, becoming smooth, prominently silicate or plicate, plaited. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

= [G] = 1 = -- = Gills = more or less deliquescing, or pileus thin, membranous and splitting between the laminæ of the gills and becoming more or less plicate. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

= Gills = usually free, pileus deeply plicate so that the gills are split where they are attached to the pileus, pileus membranaceous, very tender but not diffluent. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The pileus is membraneous, ovate or campanulate, moist or somewhat watery, obtuse, plicate, striate on the margin, yellow. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

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