Used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles.

synonym: imbricate.

Roget 223: covering etc. v.; superimposed, overlaid, plated etc. v.; cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary^†, skinny, scaly, squamous [Anat.]; covered etc. v.; imbricated, loricated^†, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate^†, dermatoid^†, encuirassed^†, hooded, squamiferous^†, tectiform^†; vaginate^†.    ... show more