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folium

The English word “folium” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A leaf.
  2. A leaf (2 pages) of a codex or manuscript.
  3. A document that acts as the legal record of a transaction.
  4. A certificate of title.
  5. A thin sheet or plate of a foliated rock or mineral.
  6. A lobe on a branching structure.
  7. A leaf-like protrusion or lobule on one of the vermes of the cerebellum.
  8. A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop.
  9. Synonym of turnsole (“purple dye”).
  10. A symmetric pattern on the abdomen of some spiders.

Etymology

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

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