Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
- 2transitive verb
To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
- 3transitive verb
To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
- 4verb
grow leaves
"the tree foliated in Spring"
- 5verb
number the pages of a book or manuscript
- 6verb
coat or back with metal foil
"foliate glass"
- 7verb
decorate with leaves
- 8verb
hammer into thin flat foils
"foliate metal"
- 9adjective
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
Synonyms
- 10adjective
(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'"
- 11adjective
ornamented with foliage or foils
"foliate tracery"
"a foliated capital"
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