foliar

foliar (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or via the leaves.
   • 1924, Julia Moesel Haber, The Anatomy and the Morphology of the Flower of Euphorbia, page 116:

     Warming (1870) (69) is confident that it is not an independent foliar appendage, for ontogenetic proof, analogy to other genera, and the course of vascular strands indicate that it is a foliar organ which is closely allied to the involucre.

• foliar feeding
• foliar trace

• Failor

• Hyphenation: fo‧li‧ar

Ultimately from Late Latin folia.

foliar m or f (plural foliares)

1. (botany) foliate; foliar (of or relating to leaves)

From folia (“merrymaking”) +‎ -ar.

foliar (first-person singular present folio, first-person singular preterite foliei, past participle foliado)

1. (intransitive) to make merry

Borrowed from French foliaire.

foliar m or n (feminine singular foliară, masculine plural foliari, feminine and neuter plural foliare)

1. foliar

• foliar in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /foˈljaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fo‧liar

foliar m or f (masculine and feminine plural foliares)

1. foliar

foliar (first-person singular present folio, first-person singular preterite folié, past participle foliado)

1. to number (the pages of); to foliate

• “foliar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10