Definitions from Wiktionary (foliate)
▸ adjective: Of or relating to leaves.
▸ adjective: Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
▸ adjective: (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
▸ adjective: (botany)
▸ adjective: Of a plant: having leaves.
▸ adjective: Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
▸ adjective: (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”)
▸ adjective: (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet.
▸ noun: (geometry) A logocyclic curve.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
▸ verb: To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.
▸ verb: (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
▸ verb: (obsolete) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To split into layers or leaves.
▸ verb: (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves.
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▸ adjective: Of or relating to leaves.
▸ adjective: Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
▸ adjective: (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
▸ adjective: (botany)
▸ adjective: Of a plant: having leaves.
▸ adjective: Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
▸ adjective: (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”)
▸ adjective: (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet.
▸ noun: (geometry) A logocyclic curve.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
▸ verb: To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.
▸ verb: (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
▸ verb: (obsolete) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To split into layers or leaves.
▸ verb: (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves.
Similar:
leafy,
stratified,
paginate,
bedded,
foliolate,
foliose,
foliaceous,
foliicolous,
folicolous,
folial,
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