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

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

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

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

Even if formed during regional metamorphism, quartzite does not tend to be foliated because quartz crystals don’t align with the directional pressure.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Streaks of “granulitic” or pulverized material wind irregularly through the rock, giving it a roughly foliated character.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 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