[
UK
/fˈəʊlɪˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈfoʊɫiˌeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈfoʊɫiˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- decorate with leaves
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grow leaves
the tree foliated in Spring -
hammer into thin flat foils
foliate metal -
coat or back with metal foil
foliate glass
ADJECTIVE
- (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
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ornamented with foliage or foils
a foliated capital
foliate tracery -
(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'
How To Use foliate In A Sentence
- It has trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers and long slender pods containing variously colored edible beans. Chapter 9
- As far as I can discern, these are foliated or (roughly speaking) “wrapped” objects akin to the “reel” referred to above; but the Wikipedia article on them is rather terse and formal and not very illuminating. The Arrow of Time in Scientific American
- Most of Romsey's foliate heads are closer to animal than to human form: this one is very cat-like, and is the source of copious vegetation.
- exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
- A double oscillation is also a possibility, for example if the trees are defoliated by predators and then put out a second growth of leaves.
- 'Swingle' citrumelo, 'Cleopatra' mandarin and Poncirus trifoliata (trifoliate orange). 12: Seeds and germplasm
- Most alternative herbicide programs require seedling alfalfa to have at least two to four trifoliate leaves before applying treatments.
- Silver maple and English walnut are examples of trees that can be damaged by sun scald in summer, but not during winter, when they are completely defoliated anyway.
- Apart from foliate designs, Renaissance patterns diffused relatively slowly through northern Europe and Spain.
- At Osterley what are central fruiting grapevines in the carpet are foliate swags in the drawing.