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

The works reference Art Nouveau’s mimicry of foliate forms — only, in this case, they’re literally composed of leaves.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

The general effect of the design remained the same, but the foliate ornamentation gave place to angular outlines.

From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton Armstrong Howes

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

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2016

The rock that forms in this way is known as greenstone if it isn’t foliated, or greenschist if it is.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

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

The Archean system, or the rocks formed during the Archean period, are without known fossils, and consist largely of gneisses and foliated 309 schists, which are metamorphosed sedimentary or igneous terranes, together with various eruptives.

From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell

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

From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch