Foliage can be categorized as a noun.
Verb |
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| foliage - To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves. | ||
Noun |
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| foliage - the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | ||
| foliage - (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament |
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| 1. | noun | The trees have exuberant foliage. | |
| 2. | noun | In the country, the colors of the sky and of the foliage are entirely different from those seen in the city. | |
| 3. | noun | The fawn blended seamlessly into the foliage. | |
| 4. | noun | Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. | |
| 5. | noun | The foliage is very dense. | |
| 6. | noun | With these words he sprang like a young nightingale among the myrtles, and climbing from bough to bough ascended through the foliage to the summit of a tree. I observed wings upon his shoulders, and between them a bow and arrows, but to my great astonishment, a moment afterwards I could see neither him nor them. | |
| 7. | noun | Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage. | |
| 8. | noun | Meanwhile a mingled murmur through the street / rolls onward – wails of anguish, shrieks of fear –, / and though my father's mansion stood secrete, / embowered in foliage, nearer and more near / peals the dire clang of arms, and loud and clear, / borne on fierce echoes that in tumult blend, / war-shout and wail come thickening on the ear. | |
| 9. | noun | Within the palace, open to the day, / there stood a massive altar. Overhead, / with drooping boughs, a venerable bay / its shadowy foliage o'er the home-gods spread. | |
| 10. | noun | Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path through which to touch the ground in little spots and to cast weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves. | |
| 11. | noun | I find it very calming to be surrounded by the thick, green foliage of trees, the vibrant colors of the springtime flowers, and the sounds of birds, frogs and rushing water from the swollen creeks. | |
| 12. | noun | Fig trees have thick foliage. |
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| The trees have exuberant foliage. | |
| In the country, the colors of the sky and of the foliage are entirely different from those seen in the city. | |
| The fawn blended seamlessly into the foliage. | |
| Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. | |
| The foliage is very dense. | |
| With these words he sprang like a young nightingale among the myrtles, and climbing from bough to bough ascended through the foliage to the summit of a tree. I observed wings upon his shoulders, and between them a bow and arrows, but to my great astonishment, a moment afterwards I could see neither him nor them. | |
| Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage. | |
| Meanwhile a mingled murmur through the street / rolls onward – wails of anguish, shrieks of fear –, / and though my father's mansion stood secrete, / embowered in foliage, nearer and more near / peals the dire clang of arms, and loud and clear, / borne on fierce echoes that in tumult blend, / war-shout and wail come thickening on the ear. | |
| Within the palace, open to the day, / there stood a massive altar. Overhead, / with drooping boughs, a venerable bay / its shadowy foliage o'er the home-gods spread. | |
| Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path through which to touch the ground in little spots and to cast weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves. | |
| I find it very calming to be surrounded by the thick, green foliage of trees, the vibrant colors of the springtime flowers, and the sounds of birds, frogs and rushing water from the swollen creeks. | |
| Fig trees have thick foliage. | |