imbricate

• A variety of grass favored for pastures. imbricate —  GeekLikeMe.net
• The spikelets are compressed laterally, sessile or obscurely pedicelled, imbricate, alternately biseriate on the ventral side of the rachis, 1-flowered; the rachilla is produced into a bristle behind the palea, with or without a minute glume. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Mr. Blanford says: "The small scales covering the tail are indistinctly arranged in rings and sub-imbricate; on the lower surface the scales are convex and distinctly imbricate, the bristles arising from the interstices. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• Scales smooth, ovate, imbricate, those of the belly 6-sided. —  Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
• In habit it is like that of the tea, but the buds are covered with imbricate scales. —  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

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