Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
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 æstivation.
In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.
overlapping or layered as scales or shingles; -- used especially of leaves or bracts.
Closely overlapping each other like the tiles of a roof.
Closely overlapping, like shingles.
Lying lapped over each other in regular order (like scales of a fish or shingles on a roof).
overlapping, like shingles on a roof
overlapping one another at the margins, shingle-like, to lay or arrange regularly so as to overlap one another.
used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
Overlapping, as slates on a roof.