Foliation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOLIATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the process of bursting into leaf
• the process of splitting into thin sheets or laminae.
• process of producing leaves
• The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
• The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
• The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
• The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
• The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
• The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
• (botany) the process of forming leaves
• (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
• (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
• the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
• the work of coating glass with metal foil
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the process of forming into a leaf; the state of being in leaf; vernation

Words related to FOLIATION

foliations13 foliature12 foliatures13

Words that contain FOLIATION

foliations13 defoliation15 exfoliation21 defoliations16 exfoliations22 perfoliation17 prefoliation17 perfoliations18 prefoliations18

How to use FOLIATION in a sentence

• Pattern after pattern of graceful foliation emerged till the design assumed the intricate complexity of the Egyptic style.
• The first palace beyond the bridge, now a decaying congeries of offices, has very rich decorative stone work, foliation and festoons.
• Darwin also admitted that Scrope had to a great extent forestalled him in his theory of Foliation.
• The original foliation seems to have been cut away, and the intermediate mullions extended to the points of the two lights.
• A great affinity exists in foliation between Terebinthace and Sapindaceae.
• Also both in foliation, flowers, and habit, between Myrtaceae and Guttiferae, the only material differences being in aroma, and adherent ovary.

Similar words containing FOLIA without suffix tion

folia8 foliar9 foliage11 foliate10 foliaged13 foliages12 foliated12 foliates11 trifolia11 bifoliate14 defoliant13 defoliate13 exfoliant19 exfoliate19 foliating13 foliature12 defoliants14 defoliated15 defoliates14 defoliator14 exfoliants20 exfoliated21 exfoliates20 exfoliator20 foliaceous15 foliations13 foliatures13 perfoliate15 trifoliate13 unifoliate13 defoliating16 defoliation15 defoliators15 exfoliating22 exfoliation21 exfoliative24 exfoliators21 trifoliated15 curvifoliate20 defoliations16 exfoliations22 interfoliate15 multifoliate17 parvifoliate20 perfoliation17 prefoliation17 undefoliated17 interfoliated17 interfoliates16 perfoliations18 prefoliations18 quadrifoliate26 angustifoliate18 aquifoliaceous28 interfoliating18 quinquefoliate35 caprifoliaceous24

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