Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling the leaf of a plant.
- adjective Having leaves or leaflike structures.
- adjective Geology Consisting of thin, leaflike layers, as of minerals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being or resembling a leaf.
- In botany, having the texture or form of a leaf; bearing leaves; leafy.
- In zoology, having parts or processes like leaves; ramifying like a leafy branch; foliate; expanded and thin, but not flat. Also
frondose . - Consisting of thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate: as, foliaceous spar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers.
- adjective (Min.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
leaf orleaves ,leaflike . - adjective Bearing leaves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- adjective of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant
- adjective bearing numerous leaves
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The adventitious organs appeared as if they were developments from the thalamus -- a kind of foliaceous disc, in fact.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, — the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006
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I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.
Walden 2004
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These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is “in full blast” within.
Walden 2004
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I opened the stomachs of several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvæ), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour.
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I opened the stomachs of several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvæ), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour.
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M. Fournier [68] gives as an illustration the case of a specimen of _Ruscus aculeatus_ in which there occurred a division of the foliaceous branches into two segments, reaching as far as the insertion of the flower, but no further.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Terminal flowers are more subject to it than lateral ones, and if the latter, by accident, become terminal, they seem peculiarly liable to assume a foliaceous condition.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Moquin [263] relates having found in the neighbourhood of Montpellier a flower of a tulip the ovary of which was represented by true leaves, which bore on their margins the ovules, and thus presented a striking analogy with the carpels of those Sterculias, like _S. platanifolia_, which are foliaceous in texture and open very early in the course of their development.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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-- Under this name are imported into this country the dried foliaceous tops of a strongly odoriferous labiate plant, growing three feet high in India and China, called in Bengalee and Hindu, _pucha pat_.
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