FOLIATED

foliate, foliated, foliaceous

(adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

foliate, foliated

(adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils; “foliate tracery”; “a foliated capital”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

foliated (not comparable)

(geology, of a rock) Having a structure of thin layers.

(architecture) Decorated with foliage.

(music) Having notes added above or below, as in a plain-song melody.

foliated

simple past tense and past participle of foliate

Source: Wiktionary

Fo"li*a`ted, a.

1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

2. (Arch.)

Definition: Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.

3. (Min.)

Definition: Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

4. (Geol.)

Definition: 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.

FOLIATE

Fo"li*ate (, a. Etym: [L. foliatus leaved, leafy, fr. folium leaf. See Foliage.] (Bot.)

Definition: Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.

Fo"li*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Foliating.]

1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. Bacon.

2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition