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Definition of Foliolate
1. Adjective. (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets. "`foliolate' is combined with the prefix `bi' to form the word `bifoliolate'"
Definition of Foliolate
1. a. Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi- foliolate.
Definition of Foliolate
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to leaflets of a plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foliolate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliolate
Literary usage of Foliolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Herbe, with palmately 1-16-foliolate leaves, stipules adnate to base of the petiole,
... Leaves mostly palmately (sometimes pin- nately) 3-foliolate; ..."
2. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Thirteen-foliolate; leaflets opposite, oval, obtuse, ... Fifteen-foliolate,
otherwise like the last. - Fio. 282. ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Leaves opposite, palmately 5-9-foliolate. Calyx tubular. Petals 4 or 5, with claws.
Ovules 6, a pair in each cell of the ovary, only one or two maturing ..."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Stems from 8 to 30 inches high : radical leaves mostly simple aud ovate to oblong,
occasionally some 3 to 5-foliolate ; cauline more or less ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1868)
"Annual or biennial herbs, fragrant in drying, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves;
leaflets toothed. ... Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Stipules often cut. ..."
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