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plicate

American  
[plahy-keyt, -kit, plahy-keyt] / ˈplaɪ keɪt, -kɪt, ˈplaɪ keɪt /

adjective

  1. Also plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.

verb (used with object)

plicated, plicating

  1. Surgery. to perform plication on.

plicate British  
/ ˈplaɪkeɪt /

adjective

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

    a plicate leaf

    plicate rock strata
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • plicately adverb
  • plicateness noun

Etymology

Origin of plicate

1690–1700; < Latin plicātus, past participle of plicāre to fold, ply 2; -ate 1

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012

The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem.

From Time Magazine Archive

P. conico-cylindr. then exp. greyish white, disc pale rufous, plicate, scurfy; g. free; s. flaccid, glabrous, pallid; sp. 6-8 � 5-7. radiatus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The peridium is round, often slightly depressed above, plicate below, where it is abruptly contracted into a long stem-like base.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. 4-7 mm. umbilicate, plicate, whitish or disc slightly tinged; g. attached to a free collar encircling the stem; s. 2-4 cm. glabrous, blackish, shining; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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