foliage (noun)
101foliation — noun 1. (botany) the process of forming leaves • Syn: ↑leafing • Derivationally related forms: ↑foliate • Topics: ↑botany, ↑phytology • …
102leafage — noun the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants • Syn: ↑leaf, ↑foliage • Derivationally related forms: ↑foliate (for: ↑foliage), ↑leaf, ↑leafy ( …
103wood cudweed — noun weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike • Syn: ↑chafeweed, ↑Gnaphalium sylvaticum • Hypernyms: ↑cudweed * * * a weedy, composite plant, Gnaphalium sylvaticum, of the North… …
104garden fleahopper — noun : a widely distributed black fleahopper (Halticus bracteatus) that sometimes feeds destructively on the foliage of various cultivated plants causing white spots and when abundant the death of infested foliage …
105irish yew — noun Usage: usually capitalized I : a hardy columnar yew (Taxus baccata stricta) that has erect branches and dark green foliage and is a horticultural variety of the common Old World yew * * * a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia… …
106understory — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: under (III) + story 1. : a foliage layer lying beneath and shaded by the main canopy of a forest 2. a. : the plants (as seedlings, shrubs …
107western tomato blight — noun or western yellow blight : a disease of the tomato that is common west of the Rocky mountains and is caused by the curly top virus of sugar beets and transmitted by the beet leafhopper but produces entirely different effects from typical… …
108Swiss chard — noun 1. beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks • Syn: ↑chard, ↑spinach beet, ↑leaf beet, ↑chard plant, ↑Beta vulgaris cicla • Hypernyms: ↑beet, ↑common beet, ↑ …
109live oak — noun any of several American evergreen oaks (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree • Hyponyms: ↑coast live oak, ↑California live oak, ↑Quercus agrifolia, ↑canyon oak, ↑ …
110Barbados pride — noun East Indian tree with racemes of yellow white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental • Syn: ↑coralwood, ↑coral wood, ↑red sandalwood, ↑peacock flower fence, ↑Adenanthera pavonina • Hypernyms: ↑tree …
