foliage /fōˈli-ij/

1. Leaves collectively
2. A mass of leaves
3. Plant forms in art

fōliāceous /-āˈshəs/ adjective

1. Leaflike
2. Like a foliage leaf
3. Leaf-bearing
4. Laminated

fōˈliaged adjective

1. Having foliage
2. Worked like foliage

fōˈliar adjective

1. Relating to leaves
2. Resembling leaves

fōˈliate adjective

1. Leaflike
2. Having leaves

1. Orig to beat into a leaf
2. To cover with leaf metal
3. To number the leaves (not pages) of

1. To split into laminae (medicine)
2. (of a plant) to grow leaves

fōˈliated adjective

1. Beaten into a thin leaf
2. Decorated with leaf ornaments or foils
3. Consisting of layers or laminae

fōliāˈtion noun

1. The production of leaves, esp in plants
2. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, or of spreading foil over a piece of glass to form a mirror
3. The numbering of leaves (not pages) in a book (see folio)
4. The alternation of more or less parallel layers or folia of different mineralogical nature, of which the crystalline schists are composed (geology)
5. Decoration with cusps, lobes or foliated tracery (architecture)

fōˈliature noun

Foliation

fōˈliolate or fōˈliolose adjective (botany)

Composed of or relating to leaflets

fōˈliole noun

1. A leaflet of a compound leaf (botany)
2. A small leaflike structure

fōˈliose adjective

1. Leafy
2. Leaflike

fōˈlium noun (pl fōˈlia)

1. A leaf
2. A lamina or lamella (medicine)

foliage leaf noun

An ordinary leaf, not a petal, bract, etc

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