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Definition of Plicate
1. Verb. Fold into pleats,. "Pleat the cloth"
Definition of Plicate
1. a. Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.
Definition of Plicate
1. Adjective. (biology) Folded multiple time lengthwise or like a fan; corrugated. ¹
2. Verb. (chiefly biology) To fold or pleat (usually used in passive). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plicate
1. pleated [adj]
Medical Definition of Plicate
1. Folded back and forth longitudinally like a fan. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plicate
Literary usage of Plicate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Calyptra yellow, deeply split at base, obtusely plicate, generally covered with
long flexuous yellowish hairs. Capsule exserted, narrowed into a long collum ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Aside from the financial inducement offered the commercial grower, it will apices
and on new growths of deciduous and plicate- leaved species, ..."
3. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"... spreading at nearly right angles, widely deltoid-triangular to broadly ovate,
rounded at basal angles and narrowed to the insertion, plicate, ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Botany by Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Francis Edward Stewart (1914)
"... it is plicate; if rolled inward from each margin, as the leaf of the common
Violet, INVOLUTE ; when rolled outward from each margin as Rumex, REVOLUTE. ..."
5. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"green at first in the middle, then chestnut-brown edged with purple, and with
pale colourless membranous plicate or denticulate tips and borders. ..."
6. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Calyptra yellow, deeply split at base, obtusely plicate, generally covered with
long flexuous yellowish hairs. Capsule exserted, narrowed into a long collum ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Aside from the financial inducement offered the commercial grower, it will apices
and on new growths of deciduous and plicate- leaved species, ..."
8. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"... spreading at nearly right angles, widely deltoid-triangular to broadly ovate,
rounded at basal angles and narrowed to the insertion, plicate, ..."
9. Pharmaceutical Botany by Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Francis Edward Stewart (1914)
"... it is plicate; if rolled inward from each margin, as the leaf of the common
Violet, INVOLUTE ; when rolled outward from each margin as Rumex, REVOLUTE. ..."
10. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"green at first in the middle, then chestnut-brown edged with purple, and with
pale colourless membranous plicate or denticulate tips and borders. ..."
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