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Foliated :: Foliated (a.) Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.

Desquamatory :: Desquamatory (n.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones.

Infoliate :: Infoliate (v. t.) To cover or overspread with, or as with, leaves..

Foliate :: Foliate (v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass..

Spathic :: Spathic (a.) Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.

Tetradymite :: Tetradymite (n.) A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Called also telluric bismuth..

Hubner :: Hubner (n.) A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate..

Lamelliferous :: Lamelliferous (a.) Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated..

Stilt :: Stilpnomelane (n.) A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina..

Perfoliate :: Perfoliate (a.) Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Connate-perfoliate :: Connate-perfoliate (a.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset..

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of..

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

Quadrifoliate :: Quadrifoliate (a.) Four-leaved; having the leaves in whorls of four.

Trifolium :: Trifolium (n.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover..

Smaragdite :: Smaragdite (n.) A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro..

Adversifoliate :: Adversifoliate (a.) Alt. of Adversifoliou.

Brucite :: Brucite (n.) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate..

Perfoliate :: Perfoliate (a.) Surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any kind..

Acutifoliate :: Acutifoliate (a.) Having sharp-pointed leaves.

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