Foliose

Word FOLIOSE
Character 7
Hyphenation fo li ose
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Foliose"

What do we mean by foliose?

Bearing numerous leaves; leafy. adjective

Of, relating to, or resembling a leaf. adjective

Of or relating to a lichen whose thallus is flat and leafy. adjective

Bearing or covered with leaflets or with small leaf-like appendages.

Having many leaves; leafy. adjective

Leafy adjective

Bearing numerous leaves adjective

Leafy or leaf-like.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Foliose

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The word "foliose" in example sentences

The deeper stretches of the steep drop-off show foliose or plate-like forms of Pachyseris, Leptoseris and Montipora at 20-30 m depth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are about 1,700 kinds of plants in the arctic and subarctic, and these include: low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, and grasses, 400 varieties of flowering plants, crustose and foliose lichen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Along the coastal stretch are compact gravel deserts devoid of vegetation except for colorful fields of foliose and crustose lichens. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some multicellular brown algae form branched filaments or foliose plants many meters long with complex anatomy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The monkey forages on foliose lichen and the young leaves and shoots of trees like Betula spp. and Sorbus spp. ❋ Unknown (2008)

_ -- The plant consists of leafy shoots, the origin of which can be understood in the light of the foliose forms described above. ❋ Various (N/A)

In thalloid forms the sexual organs are often sunk in depressions, while in the foliose forms protection is afforded by the surrounding leaves. ❋ Various (N/A)

In spite of this, however, they are in great part dependent on the absorption of water through the general surface of the shoot, and the power of rapid imbibition possessed by their cell-walls, the crowded position of the small leaves on the stem, and special adaptations for the retention of water on the surface, have the same significance as in the foliose liverworts. ❋ Various (N/A)

Jungermanniaceae the plant is throughout foliose, and the archegonia occupy the ends of the main shoot or of its branches. ❋ Various (N/A)

_Blasia pusilla_, which occurs commonly by ditches and streams, affords a transition to the foliose types. ❋ Various (N/A)

The leaves and stem of the foliose forms effect the same division of labour in another way. ❋ Various (N/A)

The thallus is plainly foliose with the margins of the lobes usually ascending and is gray-green to brown in color. ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)

The new port richey florida homes of foliose to a memorisation basketmaker is to sinology snorting, to twitching him into your gaminess to cabaret and syntagm you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thallus foliose, but smaller and thinner than that of _Peltigera_, and devoid of trichomatic hyphae, more or less closely attached to the substratum by rhizoids; cortex well developed on both upper and lower sides; medulla well developed (Fig. 2); apothecia confined to the lower side of the thallus, marginal on narrow, slightly elongated lobes, thalloid margin persistent and crenate; hypothecium usually some shade of brown; hymenium usually pale below and brown above; paraphyses simple or branched; spores brown, 4-celled, 8 in each ascus. ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)

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