foliage
noun /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/
/ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/
[uncountable]- the leaves of a tree or plant; leaves and branches together
enlarge image- dense green foliage
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- green
- bright
- dark
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Word Originlate Middle English foilage (in the sense ‘design resembling leaves’): from Old French feuillage, from feuille ‘leaf’, from Latin folium. The change in the first syllable was due to association with Latin folium.
