superfoliation
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Noun
superfoliation (countable and uncountable, plural superfoliations)
- (botany, rare) excess of foliation
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the disease of […] εμφυλλισμός , Or superfoliation mentioned by Theophrastus
References
- “superfoliation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.