Foliated

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Spread or beaten out into a thin plate or leaf.
  • Covered with a thin plate or foil.
  • Consisting of plates or laminæ; resembling or in the form of a plate; lamellar: as, a foliated structure.
  • In art: Decorated with leaf-shaped ornaments, or with ornaments whose disposition and form are suggestive of foliage. Cut into leaf-shaped divisions or irregularities of outline.
  • In architecture, containing foils: as, a foliated arch.
  • In heraldry, decorated with foliations or lobes; growing into or decorated with natural leaves.
  • In music, having notes added above or below: said of a plain-song melody.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having leaves, or leaflike projections.
  • adjective. Containing, or consisting of, foils.
  • adjective. Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia.
  • adjective. Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
  • adjective. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
  • adjective. See Nagyagite.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having a structure of thin layers
  • adjective. Decorated with foliage
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
  • adjective. ornamented with foliage or foils
  • Word Usage
    "It is rarely found as crystals, but is commonly found as what mineralogists describe as foliated masses."
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