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Foliaceous   Listen
adjective
Foliaceous  adj.  
1.
(Bot.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
2.
(Min.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
3.
(Zool.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.





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... several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvae), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour. I do not recollect having observed this sea-weed in any quantity on the tidal rocks; and I have reason to believe it grows at the bottom of the sea, at some little distance from the coast. If such be the case, the object ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Foliaceous" :   bedded, foliaged, stratified, folium, leafy, foliose, leaf, foliated


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