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Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses..

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil..

Desquamation :: Desquamation (n.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones..

Exfoliative :: Exfoliative (a.) Having the power of causing exfoliation.

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

Cinquefoil :: Cinquefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.

Praefoliation :: Praefoliation (n.) Same as Prefoliation.

Exfoliation :: Exfoliation (n.) The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure..

Vernation :: Vernation (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation..

Multifoil :: Multifoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

Superfrontal :: Superfoliation (n.) Excess of foliation.

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery..

Prefoliation :: Prefoliation (n.) Vernation.

Defoliation :: Defoliation (n.) The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..

Quarterfoil :: Quarterfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils..

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils..

Circinate :: Circinate (a.) Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns..

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