Word Meanings - FOLIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. Same as Folium.

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• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• FOLIATED
  Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. (more info) 1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• LEAFY
  1. Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge. 2. Consisting of leaves. "A leafy bed." Byron.
• CURVEDNESS
  The state of being curved.
• STALKED
  Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. Stalked barnacle , a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle. -- Stalked crinoid , any crinoid having a jointed stem.
• STALKING-HORSE
  1. A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill. 2. Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense. Hypocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under
• FOLIATE
  Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. Same as Folium.
• STALK
  An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. 4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. To climd by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer. A stem or peduncle, as of certain
• FOLIUM
  A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy. (more info) 1. A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• ACUTIFOLIATE
  Having sharp-pointed leaves.
• LATIFOLIATE; LATIFOLIOUS
  Having broad leaves.
• CONNATE-PERFOLIATE
  Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.
• QUADRIFOIL; QUADRIFOLIATE
  Four-leaved; having the leaves in whorls of four.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• QUINQUEFOLIATE; QUINQUEFOLIATED
  Having five leaves or leaflets. Gray.
• INTERFOLIATE
  To interleave. Evelyn.
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.
• INFOLIATE
  To cover or overspread with, or as with, leaves. Howell.
• ADVERSIFOLIATE; ADVERSIFOLIOUS
  Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.