Definitions for: Foliated

[adj] (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
[adj] (architecture) ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital"

Webster (1913) Definition: Fo"li*a`ted, a.
1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated
shell.

2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a
foliated arch.

3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates
or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of
laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica
schist, etc.; schistose.

5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.

Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.

Synonyms: bedded, foliate, foliate, stratified

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