Lexic.us

Definition of Foliaceous

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant.

2. Adjective. Bearing numerous leaves.

3. Adjective. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata.

Definition of Foliaceous

1. a. Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

Definition of Foliaceous

1. Adjective. Resembling a leaf or leaves, leaflike. ¹

2. Adjective. Bearing leaves. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foliaceous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Foliaceous

1. Leaf-like. (12 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliaceous

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Literary usage of Foliaceous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Involucral bracts narrow, equal, and little imbricated, never coriaceous, neither foliaceous nor green-tipped. Receptacle flat or convex, naked. ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"The genus Lathyrus, the wild pea, contains two abnormal and interesting species, in which the foliaceous organs give the plant an appearance very unlike its ..."

3. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1870)
"Bracts all foliaceous, long, but rarely reaching the apex of the male spike, ... Bracts (or at least all except the uppermost) sheathing, foliaceous, ..."

4. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Flowers appearing before the leaves ; catkins densely silky, subsessile, supported at their base by a few foliaceous bracts. Male catkins ovoid-oblong, ..."

5. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Embryo straight in fleshy albumen : cotyledons cordate, foliaceous: radicle inferior, leaves fleshy-coriaceous, ses.-ih'. # # # * Low herí», with entire and ..."

6. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"about 8 cm with large foliaceous bracts of 3-4 cm, the ultimate pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm; calyx oblong, 2 cm long the oblong liner muri cate lobes 2.5 cm x 0.5 ..."

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