Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Thriving on or parasitic to leaves.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Growing upon leaves; parasitic on leaves, as many fungi, or merely attached, as some Hepaticæ and lichens.
Etymologies
- Latin folium, leaf; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots + -colous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The distribution and origin of the foliicolous bryophyta in the Indian Ocean islands.”
Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foliicolous’.
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Miscellany, pt. f
fascinatrix, fractious, feoffee, floe, frixory, farthingale, fnese, felix culpa, fellifluous, fellmonger, felsenmeer, frost-riven and 19 more...
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