Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Arranged in folds like those of a fan; pleated.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.
- v. To fold or pleat (usually used in passive).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Plaited; folded like a fan.
WordNet 3.0
- v. fold into pleats,
Etymologies
- From Latin plicātus, perfect passive participle of plicō ("I fold"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin plicātus, past participle of plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.”
“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.”
“A fine, solid, brown species, generally more or less eroded, and with a peculiarly strongly plicate columella.”
“BOULDEN: The Football Association now has to find someone who is brave enough to face the press, mold millionaire players and plicate the fans.”
“From now on it would both monitor and du-plicate the information their quarry was receiving.”
“Why get hi there where the mass of a solar system will com-plicate our escape plan?”
“This is going to com-plicate the hell out of my notes.”
“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.”
“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.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plicate’.
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Mycology
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mereological verb/adjectives
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
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manyfold
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11th Grade Pli/Ploy/Plic
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reesetee Folded into plaits, like a fan. Jun 12, 2007