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infoliate

infoliate verb: to cover or spread with, or as if with, leaves.

Verb

infoliate (third-person singular simple present infoliates, present participle infoliating, simple past and past participle infoliated)

  1. (transitive) To cover or spread with, or as if with, leaves.
    • Long may his fruitfull Vine infoliate and clasp about him with embracements of Princely love1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC

Adjective

infoliate (not comparable)

  1. infoliated

Forms of infoliate

third-person singular presentinfoliates
present participleinfoliating
past participleinfoliated
pastinfoliated

Origin of infoliate

From in- (“in”) + Latin folium (“leaf”).

Questions about infoliate

What does infoliate mean?
Infoliate means to cover or spread with, or as if with, leaves.
What part of speech is infoliate?
Infoliate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of infoliate?
The past tense of infoliate is infoliated.

Words near infoliate in the dictionary

  1. infolding
  2. infoldings
  3. infoldment
  4. infoldments
  5. infolds
  6. infoliate
  7. infoliated
  8. infoliates
  9. infoliating
  10. infoline
  11. infolines

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