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perfoliate

perfoliate adjective: appearing to have the stem passing through the blade.

Adjective

perfoliate (not comparable)

  1. Appearing to have the stem passing through the blade.
  2. Having the leaf round the stem at the base.
  3. Surrounded by a circle of hairs, etc.

perfoliate meaning in Tamil

perfoliate in Tamil

இலைபீறிடப்பட்ட

Origin of perfoliate

Borrowed from New Latin perfoliāta, from Latin per- (“through”) + the feminine of Latin foliātus (“foliate”).

Words formed from perfoliate

Phrases with perfoliate

Questions about perfoliate

What does perfoliate mean?
Perfoliate means appearing to have the stem passing through the blade.
What is perfoliate in Tamil?
Perfoliate in Tamil is இலைபீறிடப்பட்ட. See Perfoliate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is perfoliate?
Perfoliate is an adjective.

Words near perfoliate in the dictionary

  1. perfluorotrihexylamine
  2. perfluoroundecanoate
  3. perfluoroundecanoates
  4. perflurobutane
  5. perflutren
  6. perfoliate
  7. perfoliate bellwort
  8. perfoliate bellworts
  9. perfoliated
  10. perfoliately
  11. perfoliation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perfoliate (page history and authors); perfoliate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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