foliated
Americanadjective
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shaped like a leaf or leaves.
foliated ornaments.
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Petrology, Mineralogy. Also consisting of thin and separable laminae.
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Architecture. foliate.
adjective
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architect ornamented with or made up of foliage or foils
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(of rocks and minerals, esp schists) composed of thin easily separable layers
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(esp of parts of animals or plants) resembling a leaf
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Etymology
Origin of foliated
Vocabulary lists containing foliated
Earth Science - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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These crystalline changes create identifying textures, which is shown in the figure below comparing the phaneritic texture of igneous granite with the foliated texture of metamorphic gneiss.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Boxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2016
Even if formed during regional metamorphism, quartzite does not tend to be foliated because quartz crystals don’t align with the directional pressure.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
One of the results of directed pressure and sheer stress is that rocks become foliated — meaning that they’ll have a directional fabric.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The heads of the window lights, occasionally plain, were more frequently, even in the earlier examples, and invariably in the later ones, cusped or foliated.
From The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated by Sharpe, Edmund
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