foliar
- adjective
- /ˈfoʊliər/
- Specialized
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foliar
- Farmers often apply foliar sprays to enhance the growth of their crops.
Their growth rate rate isn't as high, but they tolerate it and they're really pretty foliar accent.
- Their growth rate rate isn't as high, but they tolerate it and they're really pretty foliar accent.
Examples
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A lot of farmers will actually take the liquid waste and spray it on their crops almost as a foliar application and then as like a soil drench.
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Foliar nitrogen. As we hypothesized, all sites showed increases in foliar nitrogen concentration, with the largest proportional changes occurring in the Harvard Forest pine stand and at the Mt. Ascutney site.
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This is a natural and safe foliar nutrient.
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Use only additional carbon made available through increased rates of net photosynthesis resulting from higher foliar nitrogen concentrations.
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And I'm going to lean heavily on foliar accents for these containers.
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We took the soil cores, foliar samples to look at carbon, nitrogen, soil bulk density.
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Their growth rate rate isn't as high, but they tolerate it and they're really pretty foliar accent.
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The foliar structure of the plant allows it to capture sunlight efficiently.
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The scientist studied the foliar patterns to understand how they affect photosynthesis.
How Leaf-Related
Surface Forms
Morphology
foliar = foliage (semi-transparent) = foli + ar
The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ar' to a leaf-related combining form; the relation to 'foliage' or 'leaves' is clear but the combining form 'foli-' is not a standalone English morpheme, so learners may not immediately recognize it.
Etymology
Foliar comes from the Latin word folium meaning 'leaf', and you can see the same root in foliage, which means the leaves of a plant. So foliar means 'relating to leaves'.
