動詞 foliate:

1. hammer into thin flat foils
2. decorate with leaves
3. coat or back with metal foil
4. number the pages of a book or manuscript
   同義詞：paginate, page
5. grow leaves

形容詞 foliate:

1. ornamented with foliage or foils
   同義詞：foliated
2. (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
3. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
   同義詞：foliated, foliaceous

fo.li.ate

adj.（形容詞）
Of or relating to leaves.
葉的，有葉的：樹葉的或有關樹葉的
Shaped like a leaf.
葉狀的：形狀象樹葉的
Geology Foliated.
【地質學】 剝離成層的
v.（動詞）
fo.li.at.ed,fo.li.at.ing,fo.li.ates[-3t.]
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To hammer or cut (metal) into thin leaf or foil.
把…打箔：錘或切金屬成薄的葉箔狀

To coat (glass, for example) with metal foil.
以箔包：用金屬箔覆蓋（如玻璃）
To furnish or adorn with metal foil.
飾以箔：用金屬箔裝設或裝飾
To separate into thin layers or laminae.
分成薄層或薄板
To decorate with foliage or foils:
用葉飾裝飾：
例句：
an arch that is foliated in the Gothic style.
一座按哥特式風格飾以葉形裝飾的拱門

To number the leaves of (a manuscript, for example).
編號：為（如一本手稿的）的頁數編號
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To produce foliage.
制造葉狀物
To split into thin leaflike layers or folia.
裂成薄片：分成薄的葉狀層

來源：
Latin foli3tus [bearing foliage]
拉丁語 foli3tus [生長葉子]
from folium [leaf] * see folium
源自 folium [葉子] *參見 folium