Foliage
['fəʊlɪɪdʒ] or ['folɪɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
(n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
(v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Leaves, clusters of leaves.
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Definition
n. leaves: a cluster of leaves: (archit.) a representation of leaves flowers and branches used for ornamentation.—adjs. Fō′liaged worked like foliage; Fō′liar pertaining to leaves: resembling leaves.—v.t. Fō′liāte (orig.) to beat into a leaf: to cover with leaf-metal.—adj. Fō′liāted beaten into a thin leaf: decorated with leaf ornaments: (mus.) having notes added above or below as in a plain-song melody.—ns. Fō′liātion the leafing esp. of plants: the act of beating a metal into a thin plate or of spreading foil over a piece of glass to form a mirror: (geol.) the alternating and more or less parallel layers or folia of different mineralogical nature of which the crystalline schists are composed: (archit.) decoration with cusps lobes or foliated tracery; Fō′liature foliation.
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Examples
- About her was the waving foliage of the forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Its top is spreading, and is ornamented with a thick and glossy foliage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Dew glistens on the foliage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was none: all was interwoven stem, columnar trunk, dense summer foliage--no opening anywhere. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The ape-man, hiding safe behind a screen of foliage, sat watching this new specimen of his own race intently. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At length he came to a great tree, heavy laden with thick foliage and loaded with pendant loops of giant creepers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They caught through the foliage glimpses of martial scarlet; helm shone, plume waved. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The same varieties of the cabbage do not yield abundant and nutritious foliage and a copious supply of oil-bearing seeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The redwoods thrive in moisture--it is taken into the roots, the foliage and the bark. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Darkness had now fallen, and an early moon was sending its faint light to cast strange, grotesque shadows among the dense foliage of the forest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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