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What is the noun for foliation?

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foliation
  1. (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
  2. (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
  3. (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
  4. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
  5. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
  6. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
  7. (geology) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers, due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
  8. (topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but which, taken together, are coextensive with it.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “The growth of the plant was evident in the intricate foliation of its leaves, as they unfurled and spread out towards the sun.”
      “Cross-cutting dykes are folded, partly transposed or boudinaged in the gneissose foliation.”
      “The mylonitic foliation in the hanging wall is subparallel to the thrust plane.”
foliage
  1. The leaves of plants.
  2. (short for) Fall foliage.
  3. An architectural ornament representing foliage.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Insects and mites occasionally damage the foliage and flowers of African violets.”
      “Four tonnes of foliage is needed to build each of the 16 fences that feature in the three-day race meeting.”
      “Mix well and spray thoroughly over both sides of the foliage and onto the offending pest.”
foliature
  1. (obsolete) foliage; leafage
  2. (obsolete) The state of being beaten into foil.
  3. Examples:
    1. “So that it seems to perform its service to the seeds as the foliature to the fruit.”
folivore
  1. (biology) A herbivore that eats mostly foliage.
  2. Examples:
    1. “We conclude that the role of terpenes in Eucalyptus-marsupial folivore interactions is secondary.”
      “The Arctic hare is a herbivore, and specifically a folivore.”
foliations
  1. plural of foliation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Magnetic foliations and lineations obtained from these sites can be interpreted directly in terms of structural information.”
      “Hercules as a child again appears amid embossed foliations on the chanfron.”
      “Historically, the formalism which first arose for the material we discuss is that of measured foliations in surfaces.”
folivores
  1. plural of folivore
foliages
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