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Foliated adj.

Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

(Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.

(Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

(Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.

Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.

Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.

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Etymology of 'Foliated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foliated" Quotes from Famous Books

... on through the summer darkness between rows of electric globes drooping like huge white moon flowers from their foliated bronze stalks, on up the splendid avenue, past the great brilliantly illuminated hotels, past the white cathedral, past clubs and churches and the palaces of the wealthy; on, on along the park wall edged by its double rows of elms under which shadowy forms ...

— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers

Words linked to "Foliated" : bedded, foliage, foliate, stratified, foliaceous, architecture