FO'LIATED, participle passive 1. Spread or covered with a thin plate or foil. 2. In mineralogy, consisting of plates; resembling or in the form of a plate; lamellar; as a foliated fracture. Minerals that consist of grains, and are at the same time foliated are called granularly foliated
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