Foliaceous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or resembling the leaf of a plant.
  • adj. Having leaves or leaflike structures.
  • adj. Geology Consisting of thin, leaflike layers, as of minerals.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Resembling a leaf or leaves, leaflike.
  • adj. Bearing leaves.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers.
  • adj. Consisting of leaves or thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate.
  • adj. Leaflike in form or mode of growth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Being or resembling a leaf.
  • In botany, having the texture or form of a leaf; bearing leaves; leafy.
  • In zoology, having parts or processes like leaves; ramifying like a leafy branch; foliate; expanded and thin, but not flat. Also frondose.
  • Consisting of thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate: as, foliaceous spar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
  • adj. of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant
  • adj. bearing numerous leaves
  • Equivalent
    stratified    bedded    leafy   
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