foliaceous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   resembling a leaf or composed of leaflike parts

   The coral spread into thin, foliaceous plates along the reef.

2. 2
   adj

   bearing many leaves or other leafy growth

   The botanist distinguished the foliaceous stem from the nearly bare one beside it.

3. 3
   adj

   of rock or minerals, arranged in thin leaflike layers

   The specimen split easily along its foliaceous crystals.

From Latin foliāceus, 'leafy' or 'leaflike,' from folium, 'leaf,' with the English adjectival suffix -ous. Scientific writers extended the botanical description to minerals and structures arranged in thin leaflike sheets.

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