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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. 4-7 cm. exp. umb. plicato-rugulose, pruinosely velvety, sooty umber; g. adnate, snow-white then tinged ochre; s. 6-12 cm. colour of p., apex constricted and plicate; milk white; sp. echinulate, 9-10.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Stipe short, erect, snow-white, longitudinally furrowed or plicate; the columella central, snow-white, various in shape, globose, obovoid, turbinate, and stipitate or sessile.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
The plant is recognized by the pale yellow color of the caps and the plicate striate character of the margin.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The demands of more legible structure and more com plicated feeling drew Matisse away from the style he had largely invented.
From Time Magazine Archive
The internal coat was plicated, as if too large for the lumen.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In some places the crystal decorations are arranged in graceful flowing folds deeply plicated like stiff silken drapery.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
In the midst of these movements remarkable changes are produced upon the rocks of the crust; they are plicated, fractured, crushed, rendered crystalline and even fused.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
In the other type the solid crust has been plicated, corrugated and dislocated, especially along particular lines, and has attained its most stupendous disruption in lofty chains of mountains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
All the plicating and muffled crepitations do jar a little with a band who featured in their line-up a man who kept time by repeatedly hitting himself over the head with a metal beer tray.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
