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单词 obimbricate
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obimbricateadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: ob- prefix, imbricate adj.
Etymology: < ob- prefix + imbricate adj., after French obimbriqué (1826 in H. Cassini Opuscules phytologiques I. 257). N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (ǫbi·mbrikĕt) /ɒˈbɪmbrɪkət/.
Botany. Obsolete. rare.
Imbricate, with the scales decreasing in length from the outside inwards, as the involucre in certain plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae).
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [adjective] > having bracts, etc.
scaly1597
paleaceous1648
squamous1658
paleated1661
paled1704
squamose1731
leprous1759
spathaceous1760
squarrose1760
comose1793
glumose1793
ramentaceous1806
squarrous1806
leprose1818
squamate1826
glumaceous1828
bracteolate1830
lepidote1836
bracteate1839
spathose1839
squamulose1846
bracteated1852
bracted1854
obimbricate1857
squamaceous1857
squarrulose1857
ramentiferous1858
furfuraceous1860
tribracteate1870
tribracteolate1870
paleate1879
bracteose1880
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Obimbricatus, that which is imbricated contrariwise; applied by H. Cassini to the scales of the periclinium..when..those of the interior rows are progressively shorter than those of the external: obimbricate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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