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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Involucral scales in about 3 series, thinner, the inner dilated obovate, exceeding the disk, the 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 Asa Gray
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 Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Head broad, surrounded by a funnel-shaped velum or hood; no radula; dorsal appendages foliaceous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Flowers usually diœcious; nutlets and seeds deeply grooved on the back; rhaphe dorsal; cotyledons foliaceous, the margins revolute.
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 Asa Gray
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 Asa Gray
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