imbricated

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Once home to a bustling trade route, the region bears the marks of Morocco’s imbricated faiths and folkways.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Space travel was imbricated with science fiction, with dreams of heroic courage that continue to fuel unscientific fantasies.

From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2020

Its sound centers on her leaping and insinuating vocals, more versatile than ever, which fly acrobatically above her rivers of dazzling contrapuntal harp runs and imbricated layers of piano and analog synthesizers.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2015

Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

Corolla open-funnel-form, 5-lobed; the lobes imbricated in the bud.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa