foliaceous's Usage Examples:

To these succeed eight pairs of foliaceous branchial appendages on the front division of the body, followed on the hind division by four pairs of powerful bifurcate swimming feet and two rudimentary pairs, the number, though not the nature, of these appendages being malacostracan.

(a) The foliaceous (leaf-like) thallus, which may be either peltate, i.

Head broad, surrounded by a funnel-shaped velum or hood; no radula; dorsal appendages foliaceous.

Cases have been recorded (by Thiselton-Dyer in Encephalartos and by Wieland in Zamia) in which the short carpellary cone-scales exhibit a foliaceous form.

The cylindrical branches of the fruticose forms are usually radially symmetrical, but the flattened branches of these forms and also the thalli of the foliaceous form show a difference in the cortex of the upper and lower side.

The bi-ramose structure of the post-oral limbs, demonstrated by Beecher in the trilobite Triarthrus, is no more inconsistent with its claim to be a primitive Arachnid than is the foliaceous modification of the limbs in Phyllopods inconsistent with their relationship to the Arthrostracous Crustaceans such as Gammarus and Oniscus.

The first pair of foliaceous appendages in each animal is the genital operculum; beneath it are found the openings of the genital ducts.

The bracts are usually scale-like, but sometimes foliaceous, as for instance in Calystegia, where they are large and envelop the calyx.

I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.

These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is "in full blast" within.

This mode has some disadvantages attending it; such sheets are difficult to handle; the crustaceous species are liable to have their surfaces rubbed; the foliaceous species become so compressed as to lose their characteristic appearance; and the spaces between the sheets caused by the thickness of the specimen permit the entrance of dust.

Body flattened, the two dorsal borders prominent and foliaceous.

Synonyms:

foliate, bedded, stratified, foliated,

Antonyms:

unstratified, bedless, nonhierarchical, defoliated, scapose,