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plicatures

plicatures is the plural of plicature.

Meaning of plicature

Noun

plicature (plural plicatures)

  1. (archaic outside sciences) A doubling; a fold; a plication.
    • For no man can unfold / The many plicatures ſo cloſely preſt / At loweſt verge.1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge...

Questions about plicatures

What is plicatures the plural of?
Plicatures is the plural of plicature.

Words near plicatures in the dictionary

  1. plications
  2. plicatulate
  3. plicatulid
  4. plicatulids
  5. plicature
  6. plicatures
  7. Plichta
  8. Plichtas
  9. plicidentine
  10. plicidentines
  11. pliciform

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