Crossword-Solution: FOLIACEOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foliaceous | a. | Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike. |
| Foliaceous | a. | Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar. |
| Foliaceous | a. | Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral. |
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| ORGANS like leaves, with | 1 answer |
| Laminated | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with FOLIACEOUS (5)
Wallace, of a walking-stick insect (Ceroxylus laceratus), which resembles “a stick grown over by a creeping moss or jungermannia.” So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss.
The other commonest kinds consist of three closely allied species of true Madrepora in thin branches; of _Seriatapora subulata;_ two species of Porites[4] with cylindrical branches, one of which forms circular clumps, with the exterior branches only alive; and lastly, a coral something like an Explanaria, but with stars on both surfaces, growing in thin, brittle, stony, foliaceous expansions, especially in the deeper basins of the lagoon.
Moreover, it is notorious that with hybrids the male organs become sterile before the female organs, and with double flowers the stamens first become foliaceous.
Pointed scales, a sort of foliaceous expansions arranged in three rows, cover the lower surface, which becomes the upper surface because of the crook aforesaid.
The foliaceous stigma in the long-styled form is larger, with the expansions running farther down the style, than in the other form.