☞ By some applied to the natural order now called Boraginaceæ or borageworts. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. bi- + foliolate. ] (Bot.) Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. centifolius; centum + folium leaf. ] Having a hundred leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. dolium large jar + -form. ] (Biol.) Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a natural family of oceanic tunicates.
‖n. [ L. doliolum a small cask. ] (Zool.) A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to
n.;
Folio post,
v. t. To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages;
a. Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition;
n. [ Dim. of L. folium leaf: cf. F. foliole. ] (Bot.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. See Feuillemort. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. foliosus, fr. folium leaf. ] (Bot.) Having many leaves; leafy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Foliose. ]
a. [ L. gramen, graminis, grass + folium leaf. ] (Bot.) Bearing leaves resembling those of grass. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. latus, lateris, side + folium leaf: cf. F. latérifolié. ] (Bot.) Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf;
n. A class of flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (
n. A flowering plant.
n. A class of seed plants that produce an embryo with two cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae.
a. [ Cf. OF. melancholieux. ] Melancholy. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Sp. olla a round earthen pot, a dish of boiled or stewed meat, fr. L. olla a pot, dish. Cf. Olla, Olla-podrida. ]
Besides a good olio, the dishes were trifling. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Opposite, Folious. ] (Bot.) Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem;
a. [ Plani- + L. folium leaf. ] (Bot.) Flat-leaved. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pluri- + foliolate. ] (Bot.) Having several or many leaflets. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. portefeuille; porter to carry + feuille a leaf. See Port to carry, and Folio. ]
a. (Bot.) Having five leaflets. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. rotundus round + folium a leaf. ] (Bot.) Having round leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL. ] A scholium. [ 1913 Webster ]
A judgment which follows immediately from another is sometimes called a corollary, or consectary . . . One which illustrates the science where it appears, but is not an integral part of it, is a scholion. Abp. Thomson (Laws of Thought). [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. [ Septi- + L. folium leaf. ] (Bot.) Having seven leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf. ] (Bot.) Having thin or narrow leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. tri- + foliolate. ] (Bot.) Having three leaflets. [ 1913 Webster ]