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Foliaceous   Listen
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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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"Foliaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... can change their colour from a bright green to a dark brown, and so assimilate themselves in appearance to the foliage or bark of trees on which they lie. Another tree-lizard, not uncommon on the banks of the rivers, is not only of a beautiful green colour, but has foliaceous expansions on its limbs and body, so that even when amongst the long grass it looks like a leafy shoot that has fallen from the trees above. I do not know of any lizard that enjoys impunity from attack by the secretion of any acrid or poisonous ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt



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



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