1. foliage - Noun
2. foliage - Verb
Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
Source: Webster's dictionaryErudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream. Aristophanes
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen. David Livingstone
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. Edward Steichen
The wood will renew the foliage it sheds. Irish Proverb
About the foot of the tree the foliage falls. Irish Proverb