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Definitions of foliate
  1. adjective
    (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
  2. adjective
    ornamented with foliage or foils
    "foliate tracery" "a foliated capital"

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  3. verb
    number the pages of a book or manuscript

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  4. verb
    coat or back with metal foil
    "foliate glass"
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  5. verb
    decorate with leaves
  6. verb
    grow leaves
    "the tree foliated in Spring"
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  7. verb
    hammer into thin flat foils
    "foliate metal"
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  8. 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'"

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Definition that contains foliate
  • soy erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
  • medic any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
  • soya erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
  • soybean erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
  • alfalfa important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
  • shamrock Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
  • lucerne important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
  • kudzu fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
  • skunkbush deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit
  • soja erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
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