Foliaceous
[,fәuli'eiʃәs]
Definition
(adj.) bearing numerous leaves .
(adj.) of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant .
Typist: Murray--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
(a.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
(a.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
Typist: Nelly
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. (Bot.) Leafy, foliate.[2]. (Min.) Lamellar, laminated, lamellate, lamellated, scaly, flaky, foliated, schistose.
Typed by Claire
Examples
- So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Typed by Claire