foliate

foliate is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
2. transitive verb. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
3. transitive verb. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
4. verb. grow leaves

   "the tree foliated in Spring"

5. verb. number the pages of a book or manuscript

   Synonyms: page, paginate

6. verb. coat or back with metal foil

   "foliate glass"

7. verb. decorate with leaves
8. verb. hammer into thin flat foils

   "foliate metal"

9. adjective. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

   Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated

10. adjective. (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves

    "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'"

11. adjective. ornamented with foliage or foils

    "foliate tracery"

    "a foliated capital"

    Synonyms: foliated

Synonyms

page, paginate, foliaceous, foliated

Common word forms

foliated, foliates, foliating

Words from these letters

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