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Definition of Foliose
1. Adjective. Bearing numerous leaves.
Definition of Foliose
1. a. Having many leaves; leafy.
Definition of Foliose
1. Adjective. leafy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foliose
1. having leaves [adj]
Medical Definition of Foliose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliose
Literary usage of Foliose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"... foliose FORMS. In this group we have growth usually from a three-sided apical
cell2, which gives rise to a typical ..."
2. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Gelatinous to crusta- ceous, scaly foliose to fruticose, with Nostoc hosts. ...
foliose with Palmella or Nostoc hosts.—Peltigera. Family 23. ..."
3. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"In the foliose forms the mode of normal branching is generally ... of the foliose
forms), they are regarded as normal and not as adventitious. ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... about 3 in. high, with curved, woody, imbri- cate-foliose ... very closely
imbricate-foliose and also strongly congested: Ivs. of the ..."
5. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"The foliose (leafy) Liverworts might indeed at a casual glance be mistaken for
Mosses. ... 340); while in the foliose Liverworts, as seen from Fig. ..."
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