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foliicolous

/ˌfəʊliˈɪkələs/

foliicolous adjective: growing or living on leaves.

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 foliicolous

comparativemore foliicolous
superlativemost foliicolous

Origin of foliicolous

From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -colous.

Questions about foliicolous

What does foliicolous mean?
Foliicolous means growing or living on leaves.
What part of speech is foliicolous?
Foliicolous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce foliicolous?
Foliicolous is pronounced /ˌfəʊliˈɪkələs/.

Words near foliicolous in the dictionary

  1. folier
  2. folies de grandeur
  3. folies à deux
  4. foliferous
  5. foliform
  6. foliicolous
  7. foliiferous
  8. foliiform
  9. folimycin
  10. folinate
  11. folinates

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