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fall foliage

fall foliage noun: the brightly colored leaves of deciduous trees that appear in the autumn.

Noun

fall foliage (countable and uncountable, plural fall foliages)

  1. (US) The brightly colored leaves of deciduous trees that appear in the autumn.
    • As Chatter adjusted her scarf and cowboy hat to ward off the increasing winds, Sally Ann saw several gray leaves tumble over the grass and realized there had been no fall foliage in Half Moon. No week or so where the leaves explode with color and paint the hillsides with majestic hues of red...2004, Zackary Richards, Half Moon Falls, →ISBN, page 88
    • Nature is at her most harmonious beauty with the colorful splash of fall foliages of yellows, reds, browns and greens it is accompanied by a slight wafting breeze.2010, Edward Anthony Gibbsons, American Corruption: A Story of Boston Corruption Under J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, →ISBN

Examples of fall foliage in a sentence

  • As Chatter adjusted her scarf and cowboy hat to ward off the increasing winds, Sally Ann saw several gray leaves tumble over the grass and realized there had been no fall foliage in Half Moon.2004, Zackary Richards, Half Moon Falls, →ISBN, page 88:
  • Mount spectacular summits and ogle eyepopping fall foliage.2016, Amy C Balfour, Gregor Clark, Lonely Planet New England Fall Foliage Road Trips, →ISBN:

Forms of fall foliage

pluralfall foliages

Questions about fall foliage

What does fall foliage mean?
Fall foliage means the brightly colored leaves of deciduous trees that appear in the autumn.
How do you use fall foliage in a sentence?
As Chatter adjusted her scarf and cowboy hat to ward off the increasing winds, Sally Ann saw several gray leaves tumble over the grass and realized there had been no fall foliage in Half Moon.
What part of speech is fall foliage?
Fall foliage is a noun.
What is the plural of fall foliage?
The plural of fall foliage is fall foliages.

Words near fall foliage in the dictionary

  1. fall dwindle disease
  2. fall equinox
  3. fall equinoxes
  4. fall flat
  5. fall flat on one's face
  6. fall foliage
  7. fall foliages
  8. fall for
  9. fall foul
  10. fall from grace
  11. fall guy

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