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foliated

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

How To Use foliated In A Sentence

  • As far as I can discern, these are foliated or (roughly speaking) “wrapped” objects akin to the “reel” referred to above; but the Wikipedia article on them is rather terse and formal and not very illuminating. The Arrow of Time in Scientific American
  • exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
  • A double oscillation is also a possibility, for example if the trees are defoliated by predators and then put out a second growth of leaves.
  • Silver maple and English walnut are examples of trees that can be damaged by sun scald in summer, but not during winter, when they are completely defoliated anyway.
  • Across the river, the Viet Cong territory was a number of scalped hills: it had been defoliated.
  • The basis of our experiments was that growth habit of defoliated plants would affect how they compensated for lost leaf area.
  • It is dominated by variably foliated, medium-grained, even-textured to porphyritic biotite hornblende tonalite and quartz diorite.
  • For example, Deacon John Moore is affiliated with the foliated vine group; Aaron Cook with the ogee molding group; and William Buell with the guilloche group.
  • They were of red and black granite, and each was surmounted by a foliated encarpus of white marble. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
  • After showering with this mixture, I slather on thick, rich cream for fresh, exfoliated skin.
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