Coriaceous

Word CORIACEOUS
Character 10
Hyphenation co ri a ceous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Coriaceous"

What do we mean by coriaceous?

Leathery in texture. adjective

Consisting of leather.

Resembling leather in texture, toughness, pliability, or appearance; leathery.

Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough. adjective

Stiff, like leather or parchment. adjective

Resembling leather; leathery. adjective

Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable adjective

Resembling leather; leathery.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Coriaceous

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The word "coriaceous" in example sentences

Summit forests are low (8-15m) and species-poor; their leaves are almost entirely coriaceous. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The genus, or rather family of Epeira, is here characterized by many singular forms; some species have pointed coriaceous shells, others enlarged and spiny tibiæ. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The _first glume_ is scimitar-shaped, coriaceous, acute, with a somewhat semi-circular wing. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _second glume_ is also coriaceous, narrowed to an awn but has broad hyaline margins towards the base. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Fronds coriaceous, pale, simply pinnate, or bipinnate below; the divisions broadly linear or oblong, or the sterile sometimes oval, chiefly entire, somewhat heart-shaped, or else truncate at the stalked base. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)

The fourth glume is coriaceous, lanceolate, bisexual or female. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Coleoptera: sheath-winged: an order with the primaries coriaceous, used as a cover only, meeting in a straight line dorsally; mouth mandibulate; pro-thorax free; transformation complete: the beetles: the term has also been applied to the two elytra together. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

The fruit, when ripe, is of a dark scarlet colour, and the ordinary coffee-berry contains two semi-elliptic seeds of a horny or cartilaginous nature glued together and enveloped in a coriaceous membrane; when this is removed each seed is found covered with a silver-grey pellicle. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

The shortly petioled long acuminate leaves, arranged in two rows, attain a length of 18 centimeters and a breadth of 7 centimeters; the leaf is rather coriaceous, and slightly downy only along the nerves on the under side. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hemelytra: a modification of the anterior wings of Heteroptera, coriaceous at base, membranous at tip, not meeting in a straight line at the middle: more specifically applied to the corium; q.v.: also used for the tegmina of Orthoptera. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

They are generally leathery (coriaceous) fungi, and many grow on wood. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

The _first glume_ is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Its upper parts and sides are defended by a coat, or rather cloak, of mail, of a coriaceous nature, but exceeding in inflexibility sole-leather of equal thickness. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _third glume_ is oblong or elliptic-oblong, rigid with a hyaline centre and coriaceous at the sides, 3-nerved, paleate and with three stamens; _palea_ is as long as the glume, coriaceous with inflexed hyaline margins. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

This is a general practice with the granivorous tribes, in order to provide their young with soft and digestible food before they are strong enough to digest the hard, coriaceous seed. ❋ Various (N/A)

The leaves are alternate, oblong, short petioled, nearly coriaceous, about 2 feet long by 6 inches wide, entire or undivided, and of a bright green color. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _flowering glumes_ are coriaceous, ovate, acute as long as the second or slightly longer, paleate, palea is sub-coriaceous and shorter than the glume. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The effects of heat and frost are not so apparent in Oak woods, which have a more coriaceous and persistent foliage than other deciduous trees: but Oaks do not attain the perfection of their beauty, until the Ash, the Maple, and the Tupelo -- the glory of the first period of autumn -- have shed a great portion of their leaves. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _leaf-blade_ is flat, linear, distichous, coriaceous, rounded at the tip, margins sparsely ciliate, 1 to 2-1/2 inches long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

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