interfoliate

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ Latin folium (“leaf”).

Adjective

interfoliate (not comparable)

1. Between leaves or leaf-like structures.
   • 1899, David White, Fossil Flora of the Lower Coal Measures of Missouri, page 235:

     Another interesting feature in the species before us is the presence of interfoliate scars similar to those of other species of Sigillaria, especially the Tessellata and Facularia groups.

   • 2004, Pierre Davet, Microbial Ecology of Soil and Plant Growth, page 6:

     The layers are separated by gaps, the interfoliate spaces. The ensemble consituted by a layer and an interfoliate space constitutes the structural unit of clay.

   • 2016, Thierry A. G. M. Huisman, Andrea Poretti, The Pediatric Cerebellum, page 380:

     The primary fissure (arrow) and other interfoliate fissures are closed. Mild vermian volume loss and progressive chiasmatic atrophy (open arrow) are seen (B) on follow-up. The interfoliate fissures of the anterior vermian lobule, above the primary fissure (arrow), are open, whereas those below are closed.

Verb

interfoliate (third-person singular simple present interfoliates, present participle interfoliating, simple past and past participle interfoliated)

1. (obsolete) To interleave.
   • August 7 1696, John Evelyn, letter to Mr. Place

     I will take care to send you with my interfoliated copy

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interfoliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

interfoliate

1. inflection of interfoliare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

interfoliate f pl

1. feminine plural of interfoliato

Anagrams

• infialetterò, ritelefonati

Spanish

Verb

interfoliate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of interfoliar combined with te