What does Foliage mean?

Definitions for Foliage
ˈfoʊ li ɪdʒfo·liage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. leaf, leafage, foliagenoun

    the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

  2. foliation, foliagenoun

    (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament

Wiktionary

  1. foliagenoun

    The leaves of plants

  2. foliagenoun

    An architectural ornament representing foliage.

  3. Etymology: From feuillage.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Foliagenoun

    Leaves; tufts of leaves; the apparel of leaves to a plant.

    Etymology: folium, Latin; feuillage, French.

    The great columns are finely engraven with fruits and foliage, that run twisting about them from the very top to the bottom. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

    When swelling buds their od’rous foliage shed,
    And gently harden into fruit, the wise
    Spare not the little offsprings, if they grow
    Redundant. Phillips.

Wikipedia

  1. foliage

    A leaf is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, flower, and fruit collectively form the shoot system. In most leaves, the primary photosynthetic tissue is the palisade mesophyll and is located on the upper side of the blade or lamina of the leaf but in some species, including the mature foliage of Eucalyptus, palisade mesophyll is present on both sides and the leaves are said to be isobilateral. Most leaves are flattened and have distinct upper (adaxial) and lower (abaxial) surfaces that differ in color, hairiness, the number of stomata (pores that intake and output gases), the amount and structure of epicuticular wax and other features. Leaves are mostly green in color due to the presence of a compound called chlorophyll that is essential for photosynthesis as it absorbs light energy from the sun. A leaf with lighter-colored or white patches or edges is called a variegated leaf. Leaves can have many different shapes, sizes, textures and colors. The broad, flat leaves with complex venation of flowering plants are known as megaphylls and the species that bear them, the majority, as broad-leaved or megaphyllous plants, which also includes acrogymnosperms and ferns. In the lycopods, with different evolutionary origins, the leaves are simple (with only a single vein) and are known as microphylls. Some leaves, such as bulb scales, are not above ground. In many aquatic species, the leaves are submerged in water. Succulent plants often have thick juicy leaves, but some leaves are without major photosynthetic function and may be dead at maturity, as in some cataphylls and spines. Furthermore, several kinds of leaf-like structures found in vascular plants are not totally homologous with them. Examples include flattened plant stems called phylloclades and cladodes, and flattened leaf stems called phyllodes which differ from leaves both in their structure and origin. Some structures of non-vascular plants look and function much like leaves. Examples include the phyllids of mosses and liverworts.

ChatGPT

  1. foliage

    Foliage refers to the leaves of a plant or tree, or collectively to all the plant leaves in a particular area. It can also refer to a representation of leaves, flowers, and branches for ornamentation in art or architecture.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Foliagenoun

    leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage

  2. Foliagenoun

    a cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc

  3. Foliageverb

    to adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves

  4. Etymology: [OF. foillage, fueillage, F. feuillage, fr. OF. foille, fueille, fueil, F. feulle, leaf, L. folium. See 3d Foil, and cf. Foliation, Filemot.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Foliage

    fō′lī-āj, n. leaves: a cluster of leaves: (archit.) a representation of leaves, flowers, and branches used for ornamentation.—adjs. Fō′liaged, worked like foliage; Fō′liar, pertaining to leaves: resembling leaves.—v.t. Fō′liāte (orig.), to beat into a leaf: to cover with leaf-metal.—adj. Fō′liāted, beaten into a thin leaf: decorated with leaf ornaments: (mus.) having notes added above or below, as in a plain-song melody.—ns. Fō′liātion, the leafing, esp. of plants: the act of beating a metal into a thin plate, or of spreading foil over a piece of glass to form a mirror: (geol.) the alternating and more or less parallel layers or folia of different mineralogical nature, of which the crystalline schists are composed: (archit.) decoration with cusps, lobes, or foliated tracery; Fō′liature, foliation. [O. Fr. fueillage—L. folium, a leaf.]

Editors Contribution

  1. foliage

    A specific element of a plant.

    Florists use a variety of foliage for their bouquets.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 20, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Foliage in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Foliage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Foliage in a Sentence

  1. William Keeton:

    Good tree growth last year allowed the trees to store up energy reserves and nutrients over the winter, resulting in robust leaf development this spring and summer, but this works the other way too... a bad drought one year can lead to poorer foliage the next.

  2. Mark Salazar:

    It was found under foliage and debris. You had to be looking for it to locate it.

  3. Jim Salge:

    Really, there’s great foliage everywhere, as well as fine country stores and great New England farms, that’s why people come here ; there’s something for everybody and it’s really easy to do.

  4. Red Cross:

    Trees have been uprooted; there is no foliage and no corrugated iron structures standing on the western side of Tanna, schools and concrete homes across Tanna are destroyed. Shelter, along with water and food remain a top priority, and we are working on getting help here as quickly as possible.

  5. Michael Day:

    All in all, the Northeast is looking great for foliage.

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