| foliate | 1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. 2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass. Origin: Foliated; Foliating. <botany> Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. <geometry> Same as Folium. Origin: L. Foliatus leaved, leafy, fr. Folium leaf. See Foliage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| foliate papillae | Numerous projections arranged in several transverse folds upon the lateral margins of the tongue just in front of the palatoglossus muscle. Synonym: papillae foliatae, folia linguae. Fungiform papillae, numerous minute elevations on the dorsum of the tongue, of a fancied mushroom shape, the tip being broader than the base; the epithelium of many of these papillae has taste buds. Synonym: papillae fungiformes, clavate papillae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| foliated | 1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell. 2. Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. 3. <chemical> Characterised by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure. 4. <geology> 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. <chemical> See Nagyagite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |