foliaceous

Questions about foliaceous

What does foliaceous mean?

foliaceous means "of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foliaceous?

foliaceous has 5 syllables: fo-li-a-ce-ous. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for foliaceous?

Close synonyms include foliose, foliaged, foliate, foliated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foliaceous a common word?

foliaceous is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.