[1785–95; ‹ F ‹ LL foliolum, equiv. to L foli(um) leaf + -olum-ole1]This word is first recorded in the period 1785–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: fossilize, guillotine, initiative, plateau, preemptive-ole is a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, usually diminutives, and laterin adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin or in Neo-Latin coinages. Otherwords that use the affix -ole include: areole, centriole, vacuole
Examples of 'foliole' in a sentence
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These extracts were applied in the soil, in adaxial surface of the tomato plant foliole and directly over the insect.
Rita de Cássia Rodrigues Gonçalves-Gervásio, José Djair Vendramim 2007, 'Bioatividade do extrato aquoso de sementes de nim sobre Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917)(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) em três formas de aplicação Bioactivity of aqueous neemseeds extract on the Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in threeways of application', Ciência e Agrotecnologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542007000100004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)