| 单词 | foliation |
| 释义 | foliation (once / 35925 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n WORD FAMILY foliation: foliations+/foil: foiled, foiling, foils, foliate/foliate: bifoliate, foliated, foliating, foliation USAGE EXAMPLESMoser thinks partially cooled magma leaked into crustal rocks that oozed in like toothpaste to plug the crater, creating the layered foliation. Scientific American(Apr 29, 2014) Any sudden decrease of warmth would be very prejudicial to the progress of vegetation through the successive stages of foliation, inflorescence and fructification. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) According to the meteorological folk-lore, the weather of the summer season is indicated by the foliation of the oak and ash trees. M'Pherson, J. G., Meteorology—or Weather Explained(2012) 1 n (botany) the process of forming leaves 2Syn|Hyper leafing development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level 1n the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves Hyper production the act or process of producing something 2n the work of coating glass with metal foil 3Hyper application, coating, covering the work of applying something n (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock 4Hyper stratification forming or depositing in layers n (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament Syn|Hyper foliage architectural ornament (architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance |
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