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Word: Plicature
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (in an earlier sense). From Middle French plicature a place in the body where there is a bend and its etymon classical Latin plicātūra action of folding, a fold (Pliny), in post-classical Latin also a place in the body where there is a bend from plicāt-, past participial stem of plicāre to fold + -ūra
A fold, a ridge; specifically = "plica". In early use also: †a plexus (obsolete, rare). Also figurative. Now chiefly Botany.
= "plication".
