foliate
3 synonyms for foliate, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Relating to leaves.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. adj
Relating to leaves.
foliaceous
foliated
3. adj
(mathematics) Describing a curve with two branches that share an asymptote and form a leaf-shaped loop.
Etymology
A learned borrowing from Latin foliātus (“having leaves, leafy, leaved”) (see -ate, the adjective-forming suffix), a participial adjective formed from folium (“leaf; (Late Latin) leaf or sheet of paper”) plus -ātus (the participial adjective-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flowe...
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