how to pronounce foliage

/ˈfəʊ.li.ɪdʒ/

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foliage is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of foliage in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… so foliage so therefore if they were …”

meanings of foliage

noun:

The leaves of plants.
Fall foliage.
An architectural ornament representing foliage.

foliage frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word foliage occurs in english on average 7.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics foliage can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that foliage can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;