What's the opposite of plicate?

[mark smyth]

What's the opposite of plicate? Is this just an extreme cuculate/hooded leaf tip?

[Brian Ellis]

As plicate means 'arranged in folds', Mark, that's plicate too.

[Hans J]

Mark ,

plicat means folded
This is same word relation in Multiplication
the oppsite of plicat is smooth

Hans

[mark smyth]

Thanks Brian.

The leaves are from, for now, an unknown twin scaping species. One leaf is plicate and the other is flat but with a hooded tip.

[Brian Ellis]

I suppose if you wanted to describe it to someone you might say 'inverse plication'.

[mark smyth]

Thanks Hans and Brian

[ronm]

Carol says its obplicate. But I'm as ignorant as most, so am unsure.

[Maggi Young]

Carol says its obplicate. But I'm as ignorant as most, so am unsure.

 Seemed plausible... thought I'd check the dictionary :  I found  this quote from a scientific paper....
"The mitral sclerites have four sides known as the accrescent, decrescent, plicate, and obplicate sides, while the four sides of the sellate sclerites are the sella, ........."


 Oh dear.... that didn't help, did it? 

[ronm]

Moves it on a little perhaps? 

[Anthony Darby]

I think this com-plicates things? Plicate snowdrop leaves have definite folds with a crease.