| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fo·li·um |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f  l - m |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. fo·li·a (-l-)
1. Geology A thin, leaflike layer or stratum occurring especially in metamorphic rock. 2. Mathematics A plane cubic curve having a single loop, a node, and two ends asymptotic to the same line. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin, leaf. See bhel-3 in Appendix I.
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