Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing numerous leaves; leafy.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a leaf.
- adjective Of or relating to a lichen whose thallus is flat and leafy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or covered with leaflets or with small leaf-like appendages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having many leaves; leafy.
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- adjective
leafy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bearing numerous leaves
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some multicellular brown algae form branched filaments or foliose plants many meters long with complex anatomy.
Phytoplankton 2008
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The monkey forages on foliose lichen and the young leaves and shoots of trees like Betula spp. and Sorbus spp.
Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests 2008
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There are about 1,700 kinds of plants in the arctic and subarctic, and these include: low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, and grasses, 400 varieties of flowering plants, crustose and foliose lichen.
Tundra biome 2008
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The deeper stretches of the steep drop-off show foliose or plate-like forms of Pachyseris, Leptoseris and Montipora at 20-30 m depth.
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Along the coastal stretch are compact gravel deserts devoid of vegetation except for colorful fields of foliose and crustose lichens.
Kaokoveld desert 2008
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In spite of this, however, they are in great part dependent on the absorption of water through the general surface of the shoot, and the power of rapid imbibition possessed by their cell-walls, the crowded position of the small leaves on the stem, and special adaptations for the retention of water on the surface, have the same significance as in the foliose liverworts.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Jungermanniaceae the plant is throughout foliose, and the archegonia occupy the ends of the main shoot or of its branches.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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_Blasia pusilla_, which occurs commonly by ditches and streams, affords a transition to the foliose types.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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_ -- The plant consists of leafy shoots, the origin of which can be understood in the light of the foliose forms described above.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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In thalloid forms the sexual organs are often sunk in depressions, while in the foliose forms protection is afforded by the surrounding leaves.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
biocon commented on the word foliose
In addition, foliose means having leaves (OED).
February 24, 2012