foliated
    adj 1: ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a
           foliated capital" [syn: foliate, foliated]
    2: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers
       or strata [syn: foliate, foliated, foliaceous]

Foliate \Fo"li*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foliated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Foliating.]
   1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. --Bacon.
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   2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver;
      as, to foliate a looking-glass.
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Foliated \Fo"li*a`ted\, a.
   1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated
      shell.
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   2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a
      foliated arch.
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   3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates
      or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
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   4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of
      laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica
      schist, etc.; schistose.
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   5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
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   Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.
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