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foliate

English

  1. 🔊 (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
  2. 🔊 (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'”
  3. 🔊 ornamented with foliage or foils
    “foliate tracery”
  4. 🔊 grow leaves
    “the tree foliated in Spring”
  5. 🔊 number the pages of a book or manuscript
  6. 🔊 coat or back with metal foil
    “foliate glass”
  7. 🔊 decorate with leaves
  8. 🔊 hammer into thin flat foils
    “foliate metal”

Similar words

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