Foliage vs Umbrageous - What's the difference?
foliage | umbrageous |
The leaves of plants.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage , and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
(lb) Fall foliage.
An architectural ornament representing foliage.
Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
*1858 , R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island :
*1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 130:
*:Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.
(figuratively) irritable, easily upset
As a noun foliage
is the leaves of plants.As an adjective umbrageous is
having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.foliage
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(wikipedia)Alternative forms
* (qualifier) (l)Noun
umbrageous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.