adj spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
2. foliated ·impf & ·p.p. of foliate.
3. foliated ·adj containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
4. foliated ·adj having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
5. foliated ·adj characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
6. foliated ·adj laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, ·etc.; schistose.