Hammer into thin flat foils.

Decorate with leaves.

Coat or back with metal foil.

Number the pages of a book or manuscript.

synonyms: page, paginate.

Grow leaves.

Ornamented with foliage or foils:
— Foliate tracery.
— A foliated capital.

synonym: foliated.

often used as a combining form Having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves.

especially of metamorphic rock Having thin leaflike layers or strata.

synonyms: foliaceous, foliated.