Foliate

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  • adjective. Of or relating to leaves.
  • adjective. Shaped like a leaf.
  • adjective. Exhibiting foliation.
  • intransitive verb. To hammer or cut (metal) into thin leaf or foil.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To coat (glass, for example) with metal foil.
  • intransitive verb. To furnish or adorn with metal foil.
  • intransitive verb. To separate into thin layers or laminae.
  • intransitive verb. To decorate with foliage or foils.
  • intransitive verb. To number the leaves of (a manuscript, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To produce foliage.
  • intransitive verb. To split into thin leaflike layers or folia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In architecture: To adorn by means of foliation. See foliation, 7.
  • To divide, as an arch, into smaller arches or foils. See foil, 7.
  • To beat into a leaf, thin plate, or lamina; shape or dispose like a leaf; divide into foils or leaves.
  • To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver, etc.: as, to foliate a looking-glass.
  • Beaten into the form of a leaf or thin plate; foliated.
  • In botany, leafy; furnished with leaves: as, a foliate stalk.
  • In zoology, expanded in a leaf-like form; foliaceous.
  • Arranged in foliations: said of a pattern: divided into foliations: said of a bounding line or outline.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
  • adjective. Same as Folium.
  • transitive verb. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
  • transitive verb. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. of or relating to leaves
  • adjective. shaped like a leaf
  • adjective. foliated
  • verb. To form into leaves.
  • verb. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
  • verb. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. hammer into thin flat foils
  • adjective. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
  • verb. decorate with leaves
  • verb. number the pages of a book or manuscript
  • adjective. ornamented with foliage or foils
  • verb. grow leaves
  • adjective. (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
  • verb. coat or back with metal foil