Crossword clues for foliated
foliated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foliate \Fo"li*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Foliating.]
To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
--Bacon.To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
Foliated \Fo"li*a`ted\, a.
Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
(Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
(Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
(Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
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Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context geology of a rock English) Having a structure of thin layers 2 (context architecture English) Decorated with foliage
WordNet
adj. ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital" [syn: foliate]
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata [syn: foliate, foliaceous]
Usage examples of "foliated".
They were of red and black granite, and each was surmounted by a foliated encarpus of white marble.
Temple of the Foliated Cross at Palenque and the lizard form is clearly seen in the eyebrow and the upper jaw.
These structures were clothed and foliated with dense, decorative overgrowths of smaller and more colorful, more vegetation-like versions of the plant.
An Adamesque white-and-silver plastered ceiling finished the chilly look in a foliated oval design.
Crouch, sitting within yards of the bed, could see the centrepiece was a heart set with pointed diamonds:around the heart and attached to it by foliated gilt wire were crystal plaques, each bearing an angel's head, bewinged and carved in onyx:the plaque below the point of the heart was joined to it by a scroll, and on the scroll in diamonds were the initial letters H and D, entwined.
Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether.