verb
- Hammer into thin flat foils.
- usage: "foliate metal"
- synonyms: foliate
- Decorate with leaves.
- synonyms: foliate
- Coat or back with metal foil.
- usage: "foliate glass"
- synonyms: foliate
- Number the pages of a book or manuscript.
- Grow leaves.
- usage: "the tree foliated in Spring"
- synonyms: foliate
adjective
- Ornamented with foliage or foils.
- usage: "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital"
- synonyms: foliate
- Especially of metamorphic rock. ( having thin leaflike layers or strata).
- synonyms: foliate, foliaceous
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