foliated Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb hammer into thin flat foils
    foliate.
    • foliate metal
  2. verb decorate with leaves
    foliate.
  3. verb coat or back with metal foil
    foliate.
    • foliate glass
  4. verb number the pages of a book or manuscript
    paginate; page; foliate.
  5. verb grow leaves
    foliate.
    • the tree foliated in Spring
  6. adjective ornamented with foliage or foils
    foliate.
    • foliate tracery
    • a foliated capital
  7. adjective satellite (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
    foliaceous; foliate.

WordNet

Fo"li*a`ted adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913