FOLIAGE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for FOLIAGE?

Need another word that means the same as “foliage”? Find 6 synonyms and 30 related words for “foliage” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Foliage” are: foliation, leaf, leafage, leaves, greenery, vegetation

Foliage as a Noun

Definitions of "Foliage" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “foliage” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
• Plant leaves collectively.
• Leaf-like architectural ornament.
• (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament.

Synonyms of "Foliage" as a noun (6 Words)

foliation	(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament.
greenery	Green foliage, growing plants, or vegetation.
leaf	A thing that resembles a leaf in being flat and thin. Leaf tea.
leafage	The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
leaves	A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book.
vegetation	Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life. The chalk cliffs are mainly sheer with little vegetation.

Usage Examples of "Foliage" as a noun

• Healthy green foliage.

Associations of "Foliage" (30 Words)

abscise	Separate by abscission; fall off.
bud	Develop buds. A budding friendship.
bulrush	(in biblical use) a papyrus plant.
cattail	Tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes.
chlorophyll	A green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, which is responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
clover	A herbaceous plant of the pea family, with dense globular flower heads and leaves which are typically three-lobed. It is an important fodder and rotational crop.
costa	The main vein running along the leading edge of an insect’s wing.
dandelion	A widely distributed weed of the daisy family, with a rosette of leaves and large bright yellow flowers followed by globular heads of seeds with downy tufts.
fall	An act of falling or collapsing. Christmas falls on a Monday this year.
fern	A flowerless plant which has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores released from the undersides of the fronds. Ferns have a vascular system for the transport of water and nutrients.
fiber	Any of several elongated threadlike cells especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber.
frond	Compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad. Fronds of bracken.
fruit	Bear fruit. He lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies.
green	Green colour or pigment. A green recruit fresh from college.
herb	Aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities. A herb garden.
leaf	A thing that resembles a leaf in being flat and thin. Gold leaf.
lettuce	Used in names of other plants with edible green leaves e g lamb s lettuce sea lettuce.
maple	Wood of any of various maple trees especially the hard close grained wood of the sugar maple used especially for furniture and flooring.
mugwort	A plant of the daisy family, with aromatic divided leaves that are dark green above and whitish below, native to north temperate regions.
palmate	(of an antler) in which the angles between the tines are partly filled in to form a broad flat surface, as in fallow deer and moose.
petal	Each of the segments of the corolla of a flower, which are modified leaves and are typically coloured.
petiole	The slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf.
photosynthesis	The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a by-product.
plant	Place a plant in the ground out of doors so it can grow especially after growing it from seed in an indoor environment. They claimed that the drugs had been planted on them by police.
ramose	Having branches; branched. Ramose corals.
stalk	A stalklike support for a sessile animal or for an organ in an animal. The acorns grow on stalks.
tree	Force a hunted animal to take refuge in a tree. The hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it.
twig	Branch out in a twiglike manner. The lightning bolt twigged in several directions.
vegetation	An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart. The chalk cliffs are mainly sheer with little vegetation.
vegetative	Of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous. Environmental factors trigger the switch from vegetative to floral development.