Definition of "plicate" []

• Arranged in folds like those of a fan; pleated. (adjective)

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• "The Department of Departments would like ur repoorts in elebenty-plicate."
• "SCHNEIDER: McCain continues to emphasize border security to plicate his critics."
• "The whorls are plicate, with a necklace-like series of nodules at the sutures; and the shell is covered with dark red-brown spots, suggestive of its specific name."