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adjective

1. Having regularly arranged, overlapping edges, as roof tiles or fish scales.

2. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

3. 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 æstivation.