noun
Meaning 1
A leaf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
folium
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noun
Meaning 2
A leaf (2 pages) of a codex or manuscript.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A document that acts as the legal record of a transaction.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A document that acts as the legal record of a transaction.
A certificate of title.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, especially, uncountable
Topics: business, real-estate
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noun
Meaning 5
A thin sheet or plate of a foliated rock or mineral.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
A lobe on a branching structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
A lobe on a branching structure.
A leaf-like protrusion or lobule on one of the vermes of the cerebellum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
Synonym of turnsole (“purple dye”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
A symmetric pattern on the abdomen of some spiders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Meaning 11
a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: geological formation, formation
History
Etymology
From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.