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Noun foliage has 2 senses
- foliage(n = noun.plant) leaf, leafage - the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants; Array has parts: venation, lobe, leaf form, leaf shape
- foliage(n = noun.artifact) foliation - (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament; Array is a kind of architectural ornament
has particulars: cataphyll, floral leaf, dandelion green, pitcher, sporophyl, sporophyll, blade, leaf blade, amplexicaul leaf, greenery, verdure, leaflet, frond, pad, scale, scale leaf, fig leaf, simple leaf, compound leaf, entire leaf, crenate leaf, serrate leaf, dentate leaf, emarginate leaf, erose leaf, runcinate leaf, lobed leaf, parallel-veined leaf, parted leaf, prickly-edged leaf, rosette
is a kind of plant organ
Derived form verb foliate5
Derived form verb foliate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
foliage, n. [OF. foillage, fueillage, F. feuillage, fr. OF. foille, fueille, fueil, F. feulle, leaf, L. folium. See 3d Foil, and cf. Foliation, Filemot.].
- Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage. [1913 Webster]
- 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, v. t.
To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves. Drummond. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
foliage, n.
1 leaves, leafage.
2 a design in art resembling leaves.
1 leaves, leafage.
2 a design in art resembling leaves.
Idiom
foliage leaf a leaf excluding petals and other modified leaves.
Etymology
ME f. F feuillage f. feuille leaf f. OF foille: see FOIL(2)
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Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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