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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