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Adjective foliate has 3 senses
- foliate, foliated - ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital"
- foliate - (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'"
Antonym: leafless (indirect, via leafy)
- foliate, foliated, foliaceous - (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
Antonym: unstratified (indirect, via stratified)
Verb foliate has 5 senses
- foliate - hammer into thin flat foils; "foliate metal"
--1 is one way to forge, hammer
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- foliate - decorate with leaves
--2 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
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- foliate - coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass"
--3 is one way to coat, surface
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- foliate, paginate, page - number the pages of a book or manuscript
--4 is one way to number
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- foliate - grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring"
--5 is one way to develop, make grow
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