Sentence examples for foliate from inspiring English sources

These include increased surface area (dendritic, foliate, pleated, or "double" gills), rich vascularization of respiratory surfaces, ventilating mechanisms (current-directing exopods and baler plates of the maxillae and maxillipeds), and presence in the blood of special respiratory pigments such as hemocyanin (which contains copper).

The central medallion and its surrounding frieze contain scenes of a drinking contest between Bacchus and Hercules; between the frieze and the edge of the bowl is a row of 16 gold coins, each framed in a foliate wreath.

The patterns were flowing ribbons of form (generally of formalized foliate design) rather than the angular shapes typical of other types of parterre; and the various beds into which the parterre was divided by paths were coordinated in a single symmetrical design.

In the late 11th century in southern England and in northern France a type of initial letter emerged in which men, monsters, beasts, and birds climb and struggle in "tanglewoods" of rinceaux (ornamental motifs consisting of sinuous and scrolling foliate branches).

Recent research has emphasized particularly close relationships in design between the sculpture of the Siena facade and French foliate patterns and figural reliefs, especially from the cathedral at Auxerre in France.

The Yongzheng painters were the first to carry foliate decoration over on to the back of the dish, usually as a prolongation of the stem.

(Captain Smith also compared the plant to Boston ivy, which has tri-foliate leaves, Ms. Langenheim writes, and he noted in his 1624 "Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles" that it caused "itchynge" and blisters).

Although the origin of this structure is not fully understood, it is analogous to the process that produces foliated structures in metamorphic rocks.

The ice crystals in strongly deformed, foliated ice invariably have a preferred orientation, relative to the stress directions.

The forms of ground ice can be grouped into five main types: (1) pore ice, (2) segregated, or Taber, ice, (3) foliated, or wedge, ice, (4) pingo ice, and (5) buried ice. 1. Pore ice, which fills or partially fills pore spaces in the ground, is formed by pore water freezing in situ with no addition of water.

3. Foliated ground ice, or wedge ice, is the term for large masses of ice growing in thermal contraction cracks in permafrost.