foliaceous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fo=li=a=ceous

CIDE DICTIONARY

foliaceous, a. [L. foliaceus, fr. folium leaf.].

•  Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.  [1913 Webster]
•  Consisting of leaves or thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.  [1913 Webster]
•  Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

foliaceous, adj.
1 of or like leaves.
2 having organs like leaves.
3 laminated.

Etymology

L foliaceus leafy f. folium leaf

ROGET THESAURUS

foliaceous

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.