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FOLIATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foliated mean?
• FOLIATED (adjective)
The adjective FOLIATED has 2 senses:
1. ornamented with foliage or foils
2. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
Familiarity information: FOLIATED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ornamented with foliage or foils
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
foliate; foliated
Context example:
a foliated capital
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Pertainym:
foliage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
Synonyms:
foliaceous; foliate; foliated
Similar:
bedded; stratified (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers)
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