foliar
adjEtymology From Latin foliāris. By surface analysis, foli(um) + -ar.
1
Of, pertaining to, or via the leaves.
- Warming (1870) (69) is confident that it is not an independent foliar appendage, for ontogenetic proof, analogy to other genera, and the course of vascular strands indicate that it is a foliar organ which is closely allied to the involucre.1924, Julia Moesel Haber, The Anatomy and the Morphology of the Flower of Euphorbia, page 116:
- Derived terms
- foliar feeding, foliarly, foliar trace, interfoliar, nonfoliar, unifoliar