单词 | infoliated |
释义 | infoliatedadj. Now rare. Enclosed or surrounded by leaves or by sheets of some material. Also figurative. Cf. infoliate adj. ΚΠ 1704 Nat. Hist. ix, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 255 Grows two foot high, the Leaves soft and infoliated. 1785 tr. Mem. Baron de Tott I. i. 101 They [sc. shells] are mixed with fragments of soft gravel, infoliated and herberized. 1821 R. Lascelles University & City of Oxf. (St. John's College) A crosier..of black ebony, beaded, and infoliated with silver. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. §66. 61 Talc.—Infoliated masses; folia flexible but not elastic. 1912 C. Mackenzie Sinister Street (1923) 796 Michael dreaded more the loss of this infoliated calm than of any of the people who were enjoying its amenity. 1927 G. Moore Celibate Lives 51 The carved tops of the bookcases, the infoliated mirrors with their perching birds, the inlaid tables. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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