noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dense foliage (= leaves of a plant or tree )
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a thick bushy plant with dense foliage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dense
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Spider riders can move easily through woods and forests, scuttling over the treetops and through the dense foliage .
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Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
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Though the trees and the undergrowth had been cut back, branches and dense foliage stooped overhead.
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In the dense foliage around us I heard the mortars crashing heavily, shaking the air, searching for us.
green
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The lane between Somersby and Harrington is very harrow and, in summertime, shaded by dark green foliage .
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A prolific plant with dense bushy stems bearing whorls of dark green foliage .
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Bold clumps of fresh green arrow-shaped foliage and symmetrical spires of snow-white flowers.
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Coppery blooms and pale green foliage .
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Nitrogen shortage normally shows out as small, sickly, pale green foliage .
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The trees were now heavy with dark green foliage .
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Olive green foliage , rose-pink panicles of flowers.
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Pure white flowers like tiny sails amidst a sea of dark green glossy foliage .
■ NOUN
plant
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For something really different, try a whole bed of foliage plants .
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Mix different kinds of foliage plants to create a design, as you would with flowering plants.
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Or you could plant blocks of distinct colours, divided by a neutral foliage plant.
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For a year-round foliage plant a variegated Persian ivy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hare squats amongst foliage , in a scene which is enclosed by a roundel supported by two conventionally interlaced guilloche squares.
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Here the doves soared up to a tree through whose foliage came a bright yellow gleam.
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It is almost completely obscured by the tree which surrounds it and hides the light under its foliage .
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Presently, there was a lightening of foliage and I thought, almost disappointedly, all that panic for nothing.
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They have bloomed well, but now the foliage is yellowing and they need pruning.
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To listen to bird-songs, and identify foliage .
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You should find that with regular watering and feeding until the foliage dies down naturally the situation will improve next year.