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.