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Foliate

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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Similar meaning 6

Bedded 84% connected

of Bed

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Bedded 84% connected

of Bed

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Leafy 84% connected

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.

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Leafy 84% connected

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Stratified 84% connected

Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Stratified 84% connected

Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.

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Adorn 76% connected

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Beautify 76% connected

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Coat 76% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Decorate 76% connected

To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Embellish 76% connected

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Forge 76% connected

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Grace 76% connected

The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hammer 76% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Ornament 76% connected

That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 10

Foil 74% connected

To tread under foot; to trample.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Foil 74% connected

To tread under foot; to trample.

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Foliage 74% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Foliage 74% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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Foliation 74% connected

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

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Foliation 74% connected

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

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Folium 74% connected

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

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Folium 74% connected

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

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Leaf 74% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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Leaf 74% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Leaf 66% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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Synonym 3

Foliaceous 92% connected

Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foliated 92% connected

of Foliate

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Page 92% connected

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in Engl…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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