foliose
adjective
foliose is an adjective meaning “Leafy or leaflike” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-I-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foliose mean?
adjective
- 1
Leafy or leaflike.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foliose
- more foliose comparative
- most foliose superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foliose?
Foliose appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 foliose come from?
From Latin foli(ō) (“leaf”) + -ose, from Latin foliōsus (“leafy”), from foliō (“leaf”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).