Imbricate /(?)/

Im·bri·cate

Imbricate

a.
  1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
  2. 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.
  3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.

Imbricate

v. t.
  1. To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.