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The cities are not separated through magical means -- this is not, as it may seem at first, a novel of alternate worlds imbricating.

The City and the City 2009

The cities are not separated through magical means -- this is not, as it may seem at first, a novel of alternate worlds imbricating.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

The scutes covering the tarsus look odd: large, non-imbricating scutes are scattered along the anterior surface like crazy paving, and not arranged in a row as is normally the case in birds with large tarsal scutes.

Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

The scutes covering the tarsus look odd: large, non-imbricating scutes are scattered along the anterior surface like crazy paving, and not arranged in a row as is normally the case in birds with large tarsal scutes.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

Branches are many, short, crowded, densely clothed from the base with sessile, imbricating, much compressed deflexed spikelets.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _spikelets_ are either orbicular or ovate-oblong, as broad as the rachis, glabrous, closely imbricating in two rows (rarely in three or four rows), sessile or rarely geminate on a common pedicel.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Flowers at the extremities of the branches, 1½ in. long, composed of numerous imbricating, scale-like petals, curving inwards, and coloured crimson.

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

The spikelets are one sessile and one pedicelled and imbricating on the rachis.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _leaf-sheath_ is smooth, imbricating, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Flowering glumes are imbricating, at length deciduous from the rachilla, 3-nerved, all bisexual or the uppermost and rarely the lowest imperfect, ovate to lanceolate, membranous to chartaceous, usually glabrous, the lateral nerves short not reaching the mid nerve; palea are broad, membranous, deciduous with its glume or persistent on the rachilla with two ciliate smooth or scabrid keels.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari