Word.ws English Dictionary

imbrices

imbrices is the plural of imbrex.

Meaning of imbrex

Noun

imbrex (plural imbrices)

  1. A roof tile common in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, used in an overlapping formation with the tegula.

Questions about imbrices

What is imbrices the plural of?
Imbrices is the plural of imbrex.

Words near imbrices in the dictionary

  1. imbricating
  2. imbrication
  3. imbrications
  4. imbricative
  5. imbricatoside
  6. imbrices
  7. imbriferous
  8. imbring
  9. imbrings
  10. Imbriot
  11. Imbriots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbrices (page history and authors); imbrex (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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