Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality or color of tawed leather; leathery, as the leaves of Prunus laurocerasus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Leathery.
- adjective Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow.
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- adjective
leathery - adjective Of a pale brown colour like leather
Etymologies
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Latin alutacius, from aluta soft leather.
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Examples
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(alutaceous), 2 to 5 inches broad, with minute wooly scales, convex or nearly plane.
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