adjective
- shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- Also foliate. Petrology, Mineralogy. consisting of thin and separable laminae.
- Architecture. foliate(def 3).
adjective
- architect ornamented with or made up of foliage or foils
- (of rocks and minerals, esp schists) composed of thin easily separable layers
- (esp of parts of animals or plants) resembling a leaf