foliated

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fo=li=at=ed

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]

Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.

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-ply

ROGET 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.