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Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. -- Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf.

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.

Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

1. Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] Shuckford.

A leaf of a book or manuscript.

Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi- foliolate. Gray.

One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

Having many leaves; leafy.

Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

-- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.…

Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.

The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

The act of bursting into leaf. Milne. Martyn.

Leafy. Gray.