Words starting with foli

Words and definitions

Foliaceous means: Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

Foliaceous means: Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.

Foliaceous means: Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.

Foliage means: Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

Foliage means: A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.

Foliage means: To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

Foliaged means: Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

Foliar means: Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.

Foliate means: Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

Foliated means: of Foliate

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.