Definitions for folia

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folia fo·li·a

Spelling: [foh-lee-uh]

IPA: /ˈfoʊ li ə/

Folia is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in folia (afilo).

Definitions for folia

noun

1. plural of folium.
2. a wild and noisy Portuguese carnival dance accompanied by tambourines, performed at a frantic pace by men dressed as women and often carrying masked boys on their shoulders.
3. an early medieval Iberian dance accompanied by mime and songs, performed during celebrations of the solstice and New Year festivals.
4. a thin leaflike stratum or layer; a lamella.
5. Geometry. a loop; part of a curve terminated at both ends by the same node. Equation: x 3 + y 3 = 3 axy.

Origin of folia

See origin at folía

Examples for folia

Supra fasciam, denticuli; supra denticulos, folia Corinthia.

folia sola habentem, hoc est, apparentem Litteram, non Fructus Spiritus.

Also, in minute folia, in the alluvial soil of the Upper Mississippi.

Codex bombycinus, anno Hegirae 765, Christi 1363 exaratus, folia 116 implens.

folia medicata, L. On the Continent several preparations of this kind are in use.

folia ramorum alterna, diametro unciali, trinervia; petiolo folium subaequanti, basi in stipulam subscariosam adnatam dilatato.

This happens also in the Lime Tilia, in which genus pitcher- or hood-like leaves (folia cucullata) may frequently be met with.

Their structure is crystalline; and the layers, or folia, consist usually of two or more minerals, but sometimes of only one.

folia inferiora, ambitu ovato apice obtusissima; superiora magis triangularia, obtusiuscula cum mucronulo.

folia cum impari pinnata; foliolis oppositis, subtus glandulosis.