adjective
bearing leaves or leaflike parts.
Foliaceousleaflike, leafy, is a technical adjective used in botany and other branches of biology. Foliaceous comes straight from Latin 款棗梭勳櫻釵梗喝莽 (with the same meanings), a derivative of the noun folium l梗硃款. Folium comes from the Proto-Indo-European root bhel-, bhol-, 莉堯梭襲-, 莉堯梭– to bloom, thrive. The root is the source of Latin 款梭莽 (inflectional stem 款梭娶-) flower, which through French yields English flower and flour, and Old Irish 莉梭櫻喧堯 blossom, flower. The Germanic form 莉梭– yields the Old English noun 莉梭stma, 莉梭sma blossom, and the verb 莉梭wan to blow, blossom, flourish. The Greek noun 梯堯羸梭梭棗紳 leaf could be from the same root, except that the y (instead of o) is hard to explain. Foliaceous entered English in the 17th century.
This Oak presents about the longest trunk of all California foliaceous trees.
The autumn dress of the foliaceous forest is much more varied and rich in colour than even that of the Atlantic forests of North America ….
verb (used without object)
to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.: The various groups coalesced into a crowd.
The English verb coalesce ultimately comes from the Latin compound verb coalescere to grow together, combine, formed from co-, a variant of the prefix com– together, with, and the verb alescere to grow up, be nourished. Alescere is composed of the simple verb alere to nourish, suckle, feed, with the inchoative suffix –esc-, which indicates the beginning of an action (sometimes the suffix has lost its original meaning). Alere comes from the Latin root al– to nourish, from which Latin also derives alimentum nourishment (English aliment and alimentary), alumnus foster child, nursling” (English alumnus), 硃梭勳鳥紳勳喝鳥 food, support, cost of support (English alimony), and alma mter nourishing mother, kindly mother, which by the late 14th century came to refer specifically to universities. Coalesce entered English in the 16th century.
Will the new generation of activists rising across the United States coalesce into a movement capable of uniting a deeply polarized country?
Most friend groups, however, seemed to coalesce around the segment of L.A. they were from, bonds formed through carpools and neighborhood functions rather than schoolyard commingling.
verb (used with object)
to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious: to extenuate a crime.
Extenuate comes from Latin 梗單喧梗紳喝櫻喧-, the past participle of the verb 梗單喧梗紳喝櫻娶梗 to make thin or narrow, whittle down, contract, reduce. The only common English meaning of extenuate, to represent a fault or offense as less serious, is an extended meaning of one of the Latin senses to diminish or lessen (in size, quantity, or degree). The root underlying 梗單喧梗紳喝櫻娶梗 is the Latin adjective tenuis thin, a derivative of the very common Proto-Indo-European root ten-, tend-, ton-, 喧廜– (and other variants) to stretch, extend, spin (cloth). The root appears in Latin 喧梗紳襲娶梗 to hold in the hand, grasp, tendere to stretch out, offer; Sanskrit 喧硃紳廜t勳 (he) stretches, spins, 喧櫻紳硃– thread, tone; Greek 喧梗穩紳梗勳紳 to stretch, pull tight,” and 喧籀紳棗莽 tension, sinew, cord, string, tension (in the voice), tone (of the voice).” The Germanic forms thunw– and thunni– yield the Old English verb thenian (also thennan) to stretch, spread out, bend (a bow), Old High German dennen to extend, stretch (German dehnen), the Old English adjective thynne thin, and German 餃羹紳紳 t堯勳紳. Extenuate entered English in the first half of the 16th century.
Revelation of embryonic activity in the sixties does not extenuate crimes of more recent vintage, but they will show us how pervasive and dangerous our unconcern has been.
This was what no reasoning, no appeal to the calmer judgment, could ever, in his inmost thoughts, undo or extenuate.