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
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Origin of foliaceous
First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin foliāceus “leafy, like a leaf”; see folium, -aceous
Example Sentences
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Inner involucral scales obovate, outer smaller and more foliaceous.
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
Anthers with a broad connective, the cells transverse; stems mostly diffusely branched, or creeping at base, soft viscid-pubescent or smooth; corollas 4–6´´ long; bractlets foliaceous, equalling the calyx.
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 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
Involucral scales in 2–3 rows, the outer larger, loose and foliaceous.
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 large, with broad foliaceous cotyledons in thin albumen.—Perennial upright herbs, with thick and deep roots; peduncles terminal or lateral and between the usually opposite petioles, bearing simple many-flowered umbels, in summer.
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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