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Plural of folium. foliaceous (fo-li-a's hi us), a. [= Sp. foliáceo = Pg. folhaceo = It. fogliaceo, foliaceo, One of these creatures [ Ceroxylus lacer at us ) was covered over with foliaceous excrescences of a clear olive green colour, so as exactly to resemble a stick grown over by a creeping mo . A. R. Wallace , Nat. Select., p. 64. (a) In bot., having the texture or form of a leaf; bearing leaves; leafy. (b) In zool., having parts or proce es like leaves; ramifying like a leafy branch; foliate; expanded and thin, but not flat. Also frondose. The first and second maxillæ are foliaceous . Huxley, Crayfish, p. 255. 2. Consisting of thin lamine; having the form of a leaf or plate: as, foliaceous spar. Foliaceous lichen, one that is peltate and attached only by the center, as Umbilicaria, or expanded, variously lobed, attached by rhizoids, and separable from the substratum, as Parmelia and others. Compare crustaceous and fruticose, --Foliaceous tibiæ, in entom., tibiæ which are entirely or partly expanded into a thin, horny plate, which often resembles a leaf or flower-petal: a form found in certain Heteroptera. foliage (fo'li-āj), n. [Altered (to suit folia ceo us, foliation, etc., directly from L.) 2302 fueillage, F. feuillage, leaves, foliage, There is not an hear be throughout the garden that taketh vp greater compa e with fuellage than doth the beet. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 8. Green as the bay-tree, ever green, With its new foliage on, The gay, the thoughtle , have I seen. Cowper , Stanzas for 1787. Thou, with all thy breadth and height Of foliage , towering sycamore. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxix. 2. A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; particular ly, in arch., the more or le conventionalized representation of leaves, flowers, and branches used to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc. A Myrtle Foliage round the Thimble-case. Pope, The Ba et-Table. The arch of triumph looks very much as if it had been preserved from the earlier church; and such is clearly the case with two columns and one capital, whose cla ical Corinthian foli age stands in marked contrast with the Venetian imitations on each side of it. E. A. Freeman, Ven[ice, p. 120. Medieval Conventionalized Foliage, Notre Dame, Paris; end of "Dict. l'Architecture.") foliaged (fo'li-ajd), 13th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's a. [ foliage + -ed2 .] Having foliage; covered or decorated with fo- liage. Lifting tow'rd the sky The foliaged head in cloudlike majesty, The shadow-casting race of trees survive. Words worth, Vernal Ode, iii.