foliate

A gold cuff thought to have been decoration on a royal stool is embossed with lavish foliate patterns suggestive of leaves on a kum tree, a type of banyan for which Kumasi is named.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

The design featured a foliate design on an "ornate aubergine coloured" background, the catalogue said.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2023

They are normally described by art historians as foliate heads, and they are, essentially, a decorative trope.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2023

Mr. Mabey finds a few curling floral and foliate motifs but is content to leave these prehistoric symbols as mystery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2016

It springs from a corbelled head, from which foliate four cinquefoiled panels.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy

These crystalline changes create identifying textures, which is shown in the figure below comparing the phaneritic texture of igneous granite with the foliated texture of metamorphic gneiss.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

Boxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2016

Foliation is a key feature of metamorphic rocks formed under directed pressure; foliated metamorphic rocks include slate, phyllite, schist, and gneiss.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

This rock is foliated, even though it might not appear to be if examined without a microscope, and so it must have formed under directed-pressure conditions.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Still more common is the occurrence of sheared, foliated or schistose forms of gabbro.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

The ash was foliating on the 29th of April, the oak on the 28th.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir