Foliage

(n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

(n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.

(v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

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• About her was the waving foliage of the forest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Its top is spreading, and is ornamented with a thick and glossy foliage. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Dew glistens on the foliage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There was none: all was interwoven stem, columnar trunk, dense summer foliage--no opening anywhere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The ape-man, hiding safe behind a screen of foliage, sat watching this new specimen of his own race intently. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• At length he came to a great tree, heavy laden with thick foliage and loaded with pendant loops of giant creepers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They caught through the foliage glimpses of martial scarlet; helm shone, plume waved. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The same varieties of the cabbage do not yield abundant and nutritious foliage and a copious supply of oil-bearing seeds. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The redwoods thrive in moisture--it is taken into the roots, the foliage and the bark. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Darkness had now fallen, and an early moon was sending its faint light to cast strange, grotesque shadows among the dense foliage of the forest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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