imbricate - place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles"
lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants
rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
It will suffice to quote the highest authority, Robert Brown, who in speaking of certain organs in the Proteaceae, says their generic importance, 'like that of all their parts, not only in this but, as I apprehend, in every natural family, is very unequal, and in some cases seems to be entirely lost.' Again in another work he says, the genera of the Connaraceae 'differ in having one or more ovaria, in the existence or absence of albumen, in the imbricate or valvular aestivation.
femoralis in its small body size and meta-tibia with scopal setae whitish, but in that Peruvian species the apical margins of T1-T4 are brown, F1 is about as long as F2, and the mesoscutum and mesoscutellum are shiny, weakly imbricate between punctures (Fig.
The compression associated with India-Eurasia convergence along the Himalayan Arc is accommodated by a series of southward younging imbricate thrusts in its northwestern part between Main Mantle Thrust (MMT) at the north and Salt Range Thrust (SRT) to the south.
2 Plants 2-4 m high, usually lithophytic; inflorescence branches (7)15-30, with a stipe 15-36 cm long, strongly curved; leaves 60-120 cm long; peduncle bracts not imbricate; petals 10.3-10.5 cm long....
