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plicate

[ adjective plahy-keyt, -kit; verb plahy-keyt ]

adjective

  1. Also c·. folded like a fan; pleated.


verb (used with object)

plicated, plicating.
  1. Surgery. to perform plication on.

plicate

/ ˈɪɪ /

adjective

  1. having or arranged in parallel folds or ridges; pleated

    plicate rock strata

    a plicate leaf

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Derived Forms

  • ˈٱ, adverb
  • ˈٱԱ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • cٱ· adverb
  • cٱ·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of plicate1

1690–1700; < Latin ٳܲ, past participle of to fold, ply 2; -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of plicate1

C18: from Latin ٳܲ folded, from to fold
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He has a great eye for detail, but he also has a touch of the epiphenomenal imbroglios: "we listened to the muffled crepitations coming from inside"; eyebrows "plicate" foreheads.

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Seeds globose or angled.—Stems terete, from coated bulbs, with few plicate leaves, and few fugacious flowers from 2-bracted spathes.

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The internal coat was plicated, as if too large for the lumen.

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Sesquidū′plicate, being in the ratio of 2� to 1, or 5 to 2.

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It is in a great mountain-chain that the extraordinary complication of plicated and faulted structures in the crust of the earth can be most impressively beheld.

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