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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. 1-1.5 cm. subumbilicate, at length plicate, pale yellow-brown then whitish; g. broadly adnate, simple, unequal, distant; s. 2-3 cm. floccose or scurfy, reddish-brown; sp.

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. plicate, diaphanous, whitish; s. capillary, brownish. flosculus, Q. P. white, umbil. sulcate; g. adnate, white; s. short, incurved, bay, apex pale.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George