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Coriaceous

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling leather; leathery.

    "1997, JinShuang Ma, "New Species of Euonymus (Celastraceae) from East and South Asia", Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 93-111, Abstract. This species is similar to E. vagans Wallich in the texture of the leaves, which are more thickly coriaceous and have fewer crenulations on margin; the large globose capsules are white spotted."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coriāceus.

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