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imbricated

[adj. im-bri-kit, -keyt; v. im-bri-keyt]

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adjective

overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.

of, pertaining to, or resembling overlapping tiles, as decoration or drawings.

Biology. overlapping like tiles, as scales or leaves.

characterized by or as if by overlapping shingles.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to overlap, as tiles or shingles.

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Imbricated is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1650–60; < Late Latin imbricātus tiled with imbrices, shaped like such a tile or tiling, equivalent to imbric- (stem of imbrex) imbrex + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

im·bri·cate·ly, adverb

im·bri·ca·tive, adjective

non·im·bri·cate, adjective

non·im·bri·cate·ly, adverb

non·im·bri·cat·ed, adjective

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non·im·bri·cat·ing, adjective

non·im·bri·ca·tive, adjective

sub·im·bri·cate, adjective

sub·im·bri·cate·ly, adverb

sub·im·bri·cat·ed, adjective