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plicate - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Arranged in folds like those of a fan; pleated.
from The Century Dictionary.
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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Plaited; folded like a fan.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective biology Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan , usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated ; pleated .
verb To fold or pleat (usually used in passive).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin plicātus , past participle of plicāre , to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin plicātus , perfect passive participle of plicō ("I fold").
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I shall do my job - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2008 2008
SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2008 2008
SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2008 2008
SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics.
CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2008 2008
BOULDEN: The Football Association now has to find someone who is brave enough to face the press, mold millionaire players and plicate the fans.
CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2007 2007
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.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007
A fine, solid, brown species, generally more or less eroded, and with a peculiarly strongly plicate columella.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007
From now on it would both monitor and du-plicate the information their quarry was receiving.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
Why get hi there where the mass of a solar system will com-plicate our escape plan?
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
reesetee commented on the word plicate
Folded into plaits, like a fan.
June 12, 2007