leathery

[US]/'leð(ə)rɪ/
[UK]/'lɛðəri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. resembling leather, tough.

Example Sentences

bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit

Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, leathery, margin entire, venation pinnate or palmately triplinerved.

Capsule subglobose, leathery, pallid, cinereous-luteous or cinereous-brunescent, surface usually with densely squarrulose macula or smooth, loculicidally dehiscent.

Style glabrous.Fruit brown, ± globose, 2.5-3 cm in diam., apex apiculate;pericarp ca. 1 mm thick, leathery or woody, roughish.

evergreen oak of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark.

With its leathery skin, long tail, short legs, and needle-like teeth, the Nothosaur resembled a prehistoric crocodile.

Leaf blade leathery; pistillode conic to cylindric; drupes indehiscent, enclosed by persistent calyx lobes.

"dahoon:a small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southeast United States, having red or sometimes orange to yellow fruit and leathery, dark green leaves."

leaf blade ovate, broadly ovate, or rhombic-ovate, 3-7 × 1.8-3.5 cm, leathery, abaxially pruinose-green, adaxially dark green, base obtuse or acute, apex (obtuse or) acute to subacuminate;

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