infoliate

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verb

To cover or spread with, or as if with, leaves.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person infoliates · participle present infoliating · participle past infoliated · past infoliated

  1. transitiveTo cover or spread with, or as if with, leaves.

    Long may his fruitfull Vine infoliate and clasp about him with embracements of Princely love

    1640, 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
adjectiveinfoliate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableinfoliated

Origin

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

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APA

infoliate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoliate

MLA

“infoliate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoliate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “infoliate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoliate.

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