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foliaceous, a.|fəʊlɪˈeɪʃəs|
Also 7 foleaceous, 8–9 foliacious.
[f. L. foliāce-us leafy, f. folium leaf: see -aceous. Cf. Fr. foliacé.]
1. a. Having the appearance or nature of a leaf; leaf-like. Of certain cryptogamous plants: Having organs resembling leaves. † Of a flower: Having petals.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 134 Seeds themselves in their rudimentall discoveries, appear in foliaceous surcles. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 70 Herbs..Not flowring; (i.) not having any foliaceous flower. 1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 128 The largest foliaceous Cyperus. 1806J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 335 Teeth of the calyx foliaceous. 1861H. Macmillan Footn. Page Nat. 23 Mosses belong to the foliaceous..division of flowerless plants. 1877Darwin Forms of Fl. iii. 116 The foliaceous stigma is more expanded.
b. Bearing leaves, leafy; having an abundance of foliage. rare.
1677Coles, Foliaceous, leavy. 1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. X. 318 Some withering words would drop from the foliaceous tree of our language.
c. Of or pertaining to a leaf or leaves, consisting of leaves.
1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xii. 378 A foliaceous or farinaceous diet. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. vii. 134 The study of plants in which it [the stem] departs from the normal form, will clearly indicate its foliaceous origin.
2. Consisting of, or having the character of, thin leaf-like plates or laminæ.
1728Woodward Fossils I. i. 163 A blue talky foliaceous spar. 1766Phil. Trans. LVI. 37 The metal is..found..in a foliaceous manner issuing out of the quartz. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) I. 231 Flakes of foliaceous talc. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. ii. 86 The shell [of the Oyster] is attached..foliaceous, rough.
3. Zool. and Ent. Shaped or arranged like leaves.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 170 A foliaceous appendage at the origin of the feet which surround the mouth. 1854Woodward Mollusca (1856) 276 Valves foliaceous, the upper smallest. 1879Wright Anim. Life 59 The bats of this family have..foliaceous cutaneous appendages surrounding the nasal apertures.
Hence foliˈaceousness, the condition or quality of being foliaceous.
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