(n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
(n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
(v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
(2) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
(3) The method appears applicable to detection of the residues of Pydrin in the foliage of many types of crops.
(4) Mimosine was administered orally to Merino sheep once daily for periods of 1-3 days, either as the isolated compound or in the foliage of Leucaena leucocephala.
(5) Conditions of foliage forests with high grass, where occur hosts of all developmental phases of ticks (elks, hares, rodents, insectivores), are most favourable for I. persulcatus.
(6) The air concentration was then used to estimate the flux to foliage, which was compared with direct plant uptake through the roots.
(7) Violence picks up from April when the opium poppy harvest is in, spring foliage provides cover for fighters, and snow melts on the mountain passes that fighters use to return from safe havens in Pakistan.
(8) The results show that N-methylcarbamoyl and N-dimethylcarbamoylindolines in which the indoline nucleus bears a halogen or alkyl substituent are highly active on absorption via the roots of foliage and have a wide spectrum of action.
(9) Now workers ensure structures, with their flower-shaped arches and towering pillars topped with giant leaves, aren’t reclaimed by the ever-encroaching jungle foliage.
(10) Foliage collected at several times was analyzed for total terbufos residues as terbufoxon sulfone.
(11) Add a sprinkling of compost and lay them on their side to stop the foliage from rotting if it gets too wet.
(12) It was concluded that the gut-filling effect of a bulk of indigestible fibre is a major reason why the brushtail possum does not feed exclusively on Eucalyptus foliage in the wild.
(13) Inside Nunhead cemetery sits a humble bench that commands a spectacular window on St Paul’s Cathedral, perfectly framed amid the foliage, although it can only be seen if you align yourself dead centre.
(14) The digestion and metabolism of Eucalyptus melliodora foliage was studied in captive brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula).
(15) However most of the compounds showed phytotoxic activity by absorption through the foliage.
(16) Two methods are described in which light-exposed films could be used clinically with application of the principle of solarization: (1) as duplicating films with the use of sunlight and (2) as receptors for images of foliage with the use of sunlight.
(17) The ascorbic acid content of foliage available to wild primates and bats in Panama (in transition between wet and dry seasons) was lower than that of temperate zone foliage but higher than that of most fruits and vegetables.
(18) Using energy from the sun, they turn the carbon captured from the CO2 molecules into building blocks for their trunks, branches and foliage.
(19) The cathedral had been transformed into a grove of white roses, and foliage including sweet scented broom, the “planta genista” emblem of the Plantagenets.
(20) In other experiments, potassium levels of the foliage were monitored.
Foliate
Definition:
(a.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
(v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
(v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(2) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(3) Examination of rabbit foliate papillae by electron microscopy revealed for the first time the existence of a dividing cell within a taste bud.
(4) Exposure to ethanol from E12 to PN5 resulted in a large loss of P cells and retarded the foliation of the cerebellum.
(5) Fissurations forming lobules arose largely independent of the external granular layer by directed expansion of the central fiber core while normal parallel foliation is an elaboration of the lobular surface controlled by growth forces defined by both distribution of the external granular layer and the underlying fiber core with associated Purkinje cells.
(6) Individual differences in pattern of foliation and body representation occur.
(7) Small tubulo-alveolar salivary glands, the von Ebner's glands, are located beneath the circumvallate and the foliate papillae.
(8) NSE-positive fibers then penetrated the epithelium as isolated fibers, primarily in the foliate and circumvallate papillae, or as brush-shaped units formed by a multitude of fibers, especially in the fungiform papillae and in the apical epithelium of the circumvallate papilla.
(9) Foliate and vallate buds demonstrated homogeneous dense substance within the taste pores while fungiform pores were frequently empty.
(10) To examine this hypothesis further, we used electron microscopy to examine taste pores of both vallate and foliate papillae from Rhesus monkeys before or after stimulation with thaumatin or sucrose.
(11) the filiform, fungiform, foliate and circumvallate papillae.
(12) The single circumvallate papilla and fungiform papillae were initiated during the early part of the 13th day, followed on the 15th day by differentiation of filiform and foliate papillae and raised nodules of lingual tonsilar tissue.
(13) Morphological evidence of degeneration includes pyknosis of Purkinje cells and abnormal foliation patterns.
(14) Plasma glycine concentration increased in foliate deficiency and decreased with oestradiol treatment.
(15) Pseudomorphous foliated texture and cross-cutting relationships indicate replacement of talc by sepiolite.
(16) The circumvallate and foliate papillae are characterized not only by their position, but also by presence of several taste buds which open through the external orifice of the gustatory canal into the cavity of the vallum, or furrow, which divides the two folds of the lingual mucosa.
(17) alpha-Gustducin messenger RNA is expressed in taste buds of all taste papillae (circumvallate, foliate and fungiform); it is not expressed in non-sensory portions of the tongue, nor is it expressed in the other tissues examined.
(18) This reorientation of the expansion appears to be related to the cortical changes which have been described and marks the onset of foliation.
(19) Labelled fibers innervated the ipsilateral foliate papilla only, but both ipsi-and contralateral sides of the single circumvallate papilla.
(20) Ganglia of various shape and size were observed on or near the fungiform, filiform and foliate papillae.