a. [ L. foliaceus, fr. folium leaf. ] 1. (Bot.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves. [ R. ] Drummond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. foillage, fueillage, F. feuillage, fr. OF. foille, fueille, fueil, F. feulle, leaf, L. folium. See 3d Foil, and cf. Foliation, Filemot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foliage plant (Bot.), any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of Begonia and Coleus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foliar gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. --
Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. foliatus leaved, leafy, fr. folium leaf. See Foliage. ] (Bot.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Foliated p. pr. & vb. n. Foliating ] 1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. foliation. ] 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo&unr_;ed within the bud. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Geol.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. foliatura foliage. ] 1. Foliage; leafage. [ Obs. ] Shuckford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being beaten into foil. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]