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foliated
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective foliated has 2 senses
- foliated(a = adj.pert) foliate - ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital"
- foliated(s = adj.all) foliaceous, foliate - (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
foliated, a.
- Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell. [1913 Webster]
- Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. [1913 Webster]
- Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure. [1913 Webster]
- Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose. [1913 Webster]
- Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
foliated
bowery, branched, branching, branchy, filmy, foliaceous, foliaged, foliate, foliose, in layers, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, leaved, leavy, membranous, ramate, ramified, ramose, ramous, scummy, spathic, spathose, stratified, stratiform, three-ply, twiggy, two-plyROGET THESAURUS
foliated
Layer
N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.
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