Meaning

10 senses
  1. (countable, rare, uncountable)A leaf.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A leaf (2 pages) of a codex or manuscript.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A document that acts as the legal record of a transaction.

  4. A document that acts as the legal record of a transaction.

    (countable, especially, uncountable)A certificate of title.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A thin sheet or plate of a foliated rock or mineral.

    a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock

  6. (countable, uncountable)A lobe on a branching structure.

  7. A lobe on a branching structure.

    (countable, uncountable)A leaf-like protrusion or lobule on one of the vermes of the cerebellum.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop.

  9. (uncountable)Synonym of turnsole (“purple dye”).

  10. (countable, uncountable)A symmetric pattern on the abdomen of some spiders.

Origin

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyl

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

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Forms

plural: foliums / folia
Singularfolium
Pluralfoliums / folia

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedfoliaceous
Derivedbifolium

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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