From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foliate \Fo"li*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Foliated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foliating}.]
1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. --Bacon.
2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foliated \Fo"li*a'ted\, adjective
1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
{Foliated telluium}. (Min.) See {Nagyagite}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital" [syn: {foliate}]
2: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata [syn: {foliate}, {foliaceous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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