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
How To Use foliated In A Sentence
- In the world that has "developed" since 1971, it has been fought in the barrios; it has defoliated land and driven peasants into even worse poverty. Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging
- Place the freshly cut stems in a bottle of water and place in contact with the defoliated loosestrife plants.
- Three small, exfoliated fragments of cord-impressed collars also were collected that are definitely identified as Point Sauble Collared.
- The three seemingly never-ending, dark days that we had spent sinking in black puddles and slipping on fallen leaves in a courtyard of faded, gray concrete apartment blocks, where we had waited with dozens of other reporters behind a small grove of defoliated trees and a police cordon. Peace Meals
- We argue that, on the basis of their relative timing of emplacement, the foliated intrusions may be placed into two broad suites.
- The sample is a weakly foliated granulite formed of plagioclase, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and minor hornblende.
- Remove it with the accompanying muslin cloth to leave the skin exfoliated and truly clean. $75, spacenk.com Reaching Cult Status
- Little leaf lindens will certainly be defoliated if Japanese beetles are in the area.
- Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether. Ulysses
- The body is exfoliated and anticellulite cream applied.