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

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

Involucral scales linear-lanceolate, foliaceous, erect, in one or two rows, 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 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

Low species; sheaths membranaceous or hyaline and colored, either not prolonged into a bract or the bract very short and not foliaceous; perigynium more or less three-angled, often hairy, the beak straight or nearly so.—Sp.

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

Leaves roundish-heart-shaped, pointed; involucre open above down to the globose nut, of 2 broad foliaceous cut-toothed almost distinct bracts, their base coriaceous and downy, or with glandular bristles intermixed.—Thickets,

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