foliage

Other forms of foliage

plural

foliages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foliage

What does foliage mean?

foliage means "the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foliage?

foliage has 2 syllables: fo-liage. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfoʊlɪdʒ/.

What is another word for foliage?

Close synonyms include leaf, leafage, foliation. 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 foliage a common word?

foliage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.