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plicate

[plahy-keyt, -kit, plahy-keyt] / ˈplaɪ keɪt, -kɪt, ˈplaɪ keɪt /




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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. plicate, brownish; g. adnato-decurrent, white; s. elongated, straight, velvety, blackish brown, stuffed, rooting. cauticinalis, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Stipe short, erect or bent, and slightly curved at the apex, varying in color from rusty yellow to reddish brown, longitudinally plicate, arising from a small, circular hypothallus.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Stipe very short, plicate, red-brown, arising from a small hypothallus.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)