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▪ I. plicate, a.|ˈplaɪkət|
[ad. L. plicāt-us, pa. pple. of plicāre to fold.]
Folded, pleated. a. Bot. (See quots.)
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xii. (1765) 28 Corolla..Plicate, folded, as in Convolvulus. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 75 Geranium, Crane's-bill..cotyledons plicate or convolute. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. iv. (ed. 6) 133 Leaves are as to the mode of packing, Plicate or Plaited, when folded on the several ribs, in the manner of a closed fan. Ibid. 139 Plicate or Plaited, applied to the flower-bud as a whole. ― The term is used for the plaiting of a tube or cup, composed of a circle of leaves combined into one body.
b. Zool., Geol. (See quots., and cf. plica 2.)
1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 154 Genus 45. Abax..elytra united, their shoulders carinate plicate. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 334 Plicate (Plicata). When they have two or three contiguous abbreviated furrows which exhibit the appearance of folds. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 629 Mucous..Membrane... Thin, reddish, and plicate in the direction of its length. 1849Dana Geol. App. i. (1850) 687 Surface longitudinally plicate..; plications smooth.
▪ II. plicate, v.|ˈplaɪkeɪt, plɪˈkeɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. plicāre to fold: see -ate3.]
1. trans. To fold, pleat. (Chiefly in passive.)
1698B. Allen in Phil. Trans. XX. 377 The Belly plicated as other Beetles. 1841T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. 677 Its lining membrane is loose and much plicated. 1880Specif. U.S. Patent No. 229479 (title) Machine for plicating fabrics. 1904Edin. Rev. Jan. 230 The Lias and Oolites themselves..were plicated and subjected to sub-aerial denudation.
2. Medieval Mus. To add a plica to. (Chiefly as ppl. adj.)
1903C. F. A. Williams Story of Notation vii. 120 An imaginary dialogue dated 1326..shows a ‘plicated’ semi-breve when three semibreves are used with one syllable. 1927Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 3) IV. 210/1 Besides longs and breves, semibreves could be plicated when in ligature. 1954[see plica 4]. 1977Early Music Apr. 199 The neum..is assumed to be the plicated equivalent of the pressus. |