foliage

noun
/ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/UK/ˈfoʊliɪd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by Latin folium (“leaf”).

  1. derived from folium — “leaf
  2. inherited from ffoylage

Definitions

  1. The leaves of plants.

  2. Fall foliage.

  3. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at foliage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at foliage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at foliage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA