📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- a. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
- a. 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 aestivation.
- a. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the
- other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface;
- an imbricated pattern.