a. [ad. mod.L. foliāris, f. L. folium leaf. Cf. Fr. foliaire.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a leaf.
1875. Darwin, Insectiv. Pl., xv. 358. In innumerable instances foliar organs move when excited.
1880. Gray, Struct. Bot., iii. § 3. 54. Whatever subtends a lateral axis or branch may be taken for a leaf or foliar production, being in the place of such.
1884. Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 284. In many Ferns the original axile bundle widens out as the stem grows stronger into a tube, which is for the most part closed all round, and has only at each node, below the insertion of the leaf, a relatively small slit or foliar gap, through which the medullary parenchyma is connected with the cortex, and from the margin of which one or several bundles pass into the leaf.
