The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foliaceous \Fo`li*a"ceous\, a. [L. foliaceus, fr. folium leaf.]
(Bot.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
(Min.) Consisting of leaves or thin lamin[ae]; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
(Zo["o]l.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
Wiktionary
a. Resembling a leaf or leaves, leaflike.
WordNet
Usage examples of "foliaceous".
The leaflets are small, of a paler green and more tender consistence than the foliaceous petioles.
They rise from an almost woody axis, and their greatest peculiarity consists in their foliaceous green footstalks, which are almost as broad and even longer than the glandbearing blade.
A crushed fly was placed on the foliaceous footstalk, but produced no effect.
It was one careful step after another through all eight hundred miles of foliaceous diameter for those who would travel it.
The leaflets are small, of a paler green and more tender consistence than the foliaceous petioles.
And even that seeds themselves in their rudimentall discoveries, appear in foliaceous surcles, or sprouts within their coverings, in a diaphanous gellie, before deeper incrassation, is also visibly verified in Cherries, Acorns, Plums.