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Psoriasis :: Psoriasis (n.) A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin..

Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Lying over each other in regular order, so as to break joints, like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation..

Fimbricate :: Fimbricate (a.) fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennae of certain insects..

Imbricate :: Imbricate (a.) Alt. of Imbricate.

Squamate :: Squamata (n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins..

Obimbricate :: Obimbricate (a.) Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward..

Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern..

Pangolin :: Pangolin (n.) Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater..

Imbricative :: Imbricative (a.) Imbricate.

Imbricate :: Imbricate (v. t.) To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface..

Artichoke :: Artichoke (n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food..

Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

Quincuncial :: Quincuncial () Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial aestivation..

Fimbricate :: Fimbricate (a.) Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

Thuja :: Thuja (n.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves..

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