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Leaves vs Foliaceous - What's the difference?

leaves | foliaceous |

As a noun leaves

is plural of lang=en.

As a verb leaves

is third-person singular of leave.

As an adjective foliaceous is

resembling a leaf or leaves, leaflike.

leaves

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (leave)

    • Statistics

    * English terms with multiple etymologies

    foliaceous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a leaf or leaves, leaflike.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1795, author=James Hutton, title=Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I have one specimen, in which the primary crystals are siliceous, the secondary thin foliaceous crystals of deep red but transparent iron-ore, forming elegant figures, that have the form of roses. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=T. H. Pardo de Tavera, title=The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The bitter principle contained in the root, wood and bark was discovered by Blunse who named it samaderin ; it is a white, crystalline, foliaceous substance, more soluble in water than in alcohol, fusible. }}
  • Bearing leaves.