foliicolous

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/ˌfəʊliˈɪkələs/

adjective

Growing or living on leaves.

OriginLatin folium →
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Meanings

adjectivefoliicolous (comparative more foliicolous, superlative most foliicolous)

comparative more foliicolous · superlative most foliicolous

  1. biologyGrowing 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 28, Botanical Gazette, page 548

Origin

  1. Latinfolium“leaf”
  2. Englishfoliicolous

From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -colous.

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APA

foliicolous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foliicolous

MLA

“foliicolous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foliicolous. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foliicolous,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foliicolous.

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