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Webster 1913 Edition


Exfoliate

Ex-fo′li-ate

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Exfoliated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Exfoliating
.]
[L.
exfoliare
to strip of leaves;
ex
out, from +
folium
leaf.]
1.
To separate and come off in scales or laminæ, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
2.
(Min.)
To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.

Ex-fo′li-ate

Verb.
T.
To remove scales, laminæ, or splinters from the surface of.

Webster 1828 Edition


Exfoliate

EXFO'LIATE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. exfolio; ex and folium, a leaf.]
In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.

Definition 2024


exfoliate

exfoliate

English

Verb

exfoliate (third-person singular simple present exfoliates, present participle exfoliating, simple past and past participle exfoliated)

  1. To remove the leaves from a plant.
  2. To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
  3. (mineralogy) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.

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Latin

Verb

exfōliāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of exfōliō