foliaceous
Americanadjective
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of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.
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bearing leaves or leaflike parts.
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pertaining to or consisting of leaves.
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consisting of leaflike plates or laminae; foliated.
adjective
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having the appearance of the leaf of a plant
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bearing leaves or leaflike structures
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geology (of certain rocks, esp schists) consisting of thin layers; foliated
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of foliaceous
First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin foliāceus “leafy, like a leaf”; see folium, -aceous
Example Sentences
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Body flattened, the two dorsal borders prominent and foliaceous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Fertile flowers in short axillary and solitary spikes or catkins; bracts foliaceous, imbricated, each 2-flowered, in fruit forming a sort of membranaceous strobile.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Embryo foliaceous, heart-shaped.—Flowers greenish-white, in long racemose panicles.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Involucre.—Broadly campanulate, of numerous erect, loose, foliaceous, ciliate scales, in several rows.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
July.—Imperfectly fertile fronds sometimes occur, with the still foliaceous pinnæ cut into obovate segments with free veins and abortive sori; the so-called var. obtusilobàta.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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