foliaceous

American  

[foh-lee-ey-shuhs] / ˌfoʊ liˈeɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.

2. bearing leaves or leaflike parts.

3. pertaining to or consisting of leaves.

4. consisting of leaflike plates or laminae; foliated.

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foliaceous British  

/ ˌfəʊlɪˈeɪʃəs /

adjective

1. having the appearance of the leaf of a plant

2. bearing leaves or leaflike structures

3. geology (of certain rocks, esp schists) consisting of thin layers; foliated

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Other Word Forms

• foliaceousness noun
• superfoliaceous adjective

Etymology

Origin of foliaceous

First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin foliāceus “leafy, like a leaf”; see folium, -aceous

Example Sentences

Pappus simple, coarse and rigid, the stronger bristles somewhat clavate; scales rigid, more or less foliaceous, nearly equal.

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

Involucral scales narrow, equal and little imbricated, never coriaceous, foliaceous, nor green-tipped.

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

On the whole, the botanist of the expedition found on the island, 11 Phanerogamia, 4 Lichens, 33 Alg�, 2 ferns, 2 Liverworts, 3 foliaceous mosses, 1 Lycopodium.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Involucre of about 10 outer loose foliaceous scales, more or less dilated and coriaceous at base, and several firm-coriaceous, oval or obovate, concave inner ones with short abrupt green tips.

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