The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foliose
Foliose \Fo`li*ose"\, a. [L. foliosus, fr. folium leaf.] (Bot.) Having many leaves; leafy.
Wiktionary
foliose
a. leafy
WordNet
foliose
adj. bearing numerous leaves [syn: foliaceous, foliaged]
Usage examples of "foliose".
In spite of this, however, they are in great part dependent on the absorption of water through the general surface of the shoot, and the power of rapid imbibition possessed by their cell-walls, the crowded position of the small leaves on the stem, and special adaptations for the retention of water on the surface, have the same significance as in the foliose liverworts.
In the Acrogynous Jungermanniaceae the plant is throughout foliose, and the archegonia occupy the ends of the main shoot or of its branches.