1. Adjective
Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
2. Verb
To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
3. Verb
To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
4. Adjective
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
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