Usually means: Form into or decorate with leaves.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. foliate: Merriam-Webster
  2. foliate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foliate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foliate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foliate: Vocabulary.com
  6. foliate: Wordnik
  7. foliate: Wiktionary
  8. foliate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. foliate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. foliate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. -foliate, foliate: Dictionary.com
  12. Foliate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Foliate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. foliate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. foliate: Rhymezone
  16. Foliate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. foliate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. foliate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. foliate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. foliate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. foliate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foliate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foliate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. foliate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. foliate: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Foliate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See foliated as well.)

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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