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folicolous

folicolous is the alternative form of foliicolous.

Meaning of foliicolous

Adjective

foliicolous (comparative more foliicolous, superlative most foliicolous)

  1. Growing or living on leaves.
    • In the specimens I saw it required no exercise of the imagination to interpret the meaning of the spots, but any person accustomed to examine tropical foliicolous parasites would have been struck immediately with the resemblance.1895 December, Botanical Gazette, page 548

Forms of folicolous

comparativemore folicolous
superlativemost folicolous

Questions about folicolous

What is folicolous the alternative form of?
Folicolous is the alternative form of foliicolous.

Words near folicolous in the dictionary

  1. foliation
  2. foliations
  3. foliature
  4. folic
  5. folic acid
  6. folicolous
  7. foliculogenesis
  8. folie de grandeur
  9. folie du doute
  10. folie à deux
  11. folie à familie

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