True bulbs are either tunicate or imbricate. Tunicated bulbs (tulips) have a papery outer covering that protects the inner layers. Imbricate bulbs (lilies), on the other hand, have no covering.

Agyaruaq Agyaruat irurtuut. – Starfish have many legs. Sea stars, commonly known as starfish, are abundant, colorful ...

Multiple phases of dune development results in the elliptical dunes overlapping each other in an imbricate fashion (stacked like roof tiles). They develop in a range of situations including wetter ...

In life much of it is covered in a thick skin with embedded plates (the imbricate embedded plates are still in position in the specimen illustrated). All ambulacral and interambulacral zones converge ...

The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is a medium to tall tree native to North America. A member of the Fagaceae family, this tree is closely related to other commonly known trees such as all species ...

Like all maples, autumn blaze maple is oppositely branched. The terminal buds are large, and loosely imbricate with potentially a light pubescence. The lateral buds are far smaller, and have 2-3 ...

In cidaroids (above left) and echinothurioids the ambulacral plates continue over the peristome as a series of imbricate plates (a), each one perforated by a pore-pair and bearing a tube-foot in life.