"foliate" in the verb sense
1. foliate
hammer into thin flat foils
"foliate metal"
2. foliate
decorate with leaves
3. foliate
coat or back with metal foil
"foliate glass"
4. foliate, paginate, page
number the pages of a book or manuscript
5. foliate
grow leaves
"the tree foliated in Spring"
"foliate" in the adjective sense
1. foliate, foliated
ornamented with foliage or foils
"foliate tracery"
"a foliated capital"
2. foliate
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. foliate, foliated, foliaceous
especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
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