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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

foliar en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin foliāris. By surface analysis, foli(um) + -ar.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or via the leaves.
    • Warming (1870) (69) is confident that it is not an independent foliar appendage, for ontogenetic proof, analogy to other genera, and the course of vascular strands indicate that it is a foliar organ which is closely allied to the involucre. 1924, Julia Moesel Haber, The Anatomy and the Morphology of the Flower of Euphorbia, page 116:
  2. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the folia of the cerebellum.

Deriveds

foliarly · foliar trace · interfoliar · nonfoliar · foliar feeding · unifoliar