foliated

foliated
    adj 1: ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a
           foliated capital" [syn: {foliate}, {foliated}]
    2: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers
       or strata [syn: {foliate}, {foliated}, {foliaceous}]
    

Foliate \Fo"li*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foliated}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Foliating}.]
   1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. --Bacon.
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   2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver;
      as, to foliate a looking-glass.
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Foliated \Fo"li*a`ted\, a.
   1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated
      shell.
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   2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a
      foliated arch.
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   3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates
      or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
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   4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of
      laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica
      schist, etc.; schistose.
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   5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
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   {Foliated telluium}. (Min.) See {Nagyagite}.
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34 Moby Thesaurus words for "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