释义 |
obimbricate, a. Bot.|ɒˈbɪmbrɪkət| [See ob- 2.] Imbricate, with the scales decreasing in length from without inwards, as the involucre in some Compositæ.
1857Mayne Expos. Lex., Obimbricatus, that which is imbricated contrariwise; applied by H. Cassini to the scales of the periclinium..when..those of the interior rows are progressively shorter than those of the external: obimbricate. 1892in Syd. Soc. Lex. |