foliaceous
adjective
foliaceous is an adjective meaning “Resembling a leaf or leaves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-I-A-C-E-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foliaceous mean?
adjective
- 1
Resembling a leaf or leaves.
- 2
Bearing leaves.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foliaceous
- more foliaceous comparative
- most foliaceous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foliaceous?
Foliaceous appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does foliaceous come from?
From Latin foliaceus, from folium (“a leaf”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).