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

Made from creamy synthetic scuba knit — which holds shape very well — it has a 20-foot train painted and printed with slightly pixelated gold foliate pattern based on a sketch by Mr. Lagerfeld.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2016

The designs on bamboo surfaces are largely foliate scrolls, especially the yam-leaf, but also occasionally animal derivatives.

From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon

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

As this happens typically at convergent plate boundaries, directed pressures can be strong, and regionally altered rocks are almost always foliated.

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