Plicata is a botanical term used to describe a flower's characteristic with pleats or fold like appearance. There are few synonyms for this word that can be used in botanical or horticultural writing instead of plicata. These synonyms, including ruffled, crumpled, corrugated, and fluted, can be used to describe flowers with similar pleated appearances. Sometimes ruffled can also be used interchangeably with plicata to describe the edges of petals and frills of apron. Corrugated can be used to describe the longitudinal pleating of sepals or petals. Fluted can refer to shallow and wavy distortions or curves in the petals and sepals.