shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments. Also foliate. Petrology, Mineralogy. consisting of thin and separable laminae.

What foliated means?

1 : composed of or separable into layers a foliated rock. 2 : ornamented with foils or a leaf design.

What does foliated mean in science?

foliation, planar arrangement of structural or textural features in any rock type but particularly that resulting from the alignment of constituent mineral grains of a metamorphic rock of the regional variety along straight or wavy planes.