foliate
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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
Also included are a champagne swizzle stick and a metal-mounted foliate cocktail stick holder.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 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
This foliate structure is common to the coral and the plumage of birds, and to how large a part of animate and inanimate nature.
From Excursions by Henry David Thoreau
Boxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2016
Metamorphic rocks that form under either low-pressure conditions or just confining pressure do not become foliated.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
If the hornfels formed in a situation without directed pressure, then these minerals would be randomly orientated, not foliated as they would be if formed with directed pressure.
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
In their less foliated portions they can be recognized as true eruptive rocks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The ash was foliating on the 29th of April, the oak on the 28th.
From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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