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leathery, a.|ˈlɛðərɪ|
[f. leather n. + -y.]
a. Resembling leather in appearance or texture; frequent in botanical use = coriaceous. Of the voice: As if proceeding from an organ of leather.
1552Huloet, Letherye or of lether. 1681Grew Museum 111 Wormius calls this Crust a Leathery Skin. 1787Families Plants I. 256 Perianth eight-leaved, leathery. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 127 The fleshy tints of the pictures painted in oil become brown and leathery. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 288 Marrubium vulgare..Leaves..much wrinkled, leathery. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 418 Leathery leaves of Conifers. 1888Century Mag. Feb. 565/2 She thrust forward her leathery hand. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 470 The tones of the voice were leathery. 1898J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. IX. No. 34. 103 The valves of the heart, especially the mitral, were thickened and leathery.
Comb.1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxi. 155 The hair was all worn off it [a cap], leaving a greasy, leathery-looking surface. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 167 Several Calisaya trees were growing on the summit..in company with the leathery-leafed huaturu.
b. leathery turtle = leather-back (leather n. 6).
1875Encycl. Brit. III. 112/1 The ‘leathery turtle’,..is herbivorous, and yields abundance of oil. 1901[see luth]. 1963J. Kirkup Tropic Temper 270 The ‘leathery turtles’ are among the world's largest and in Malaya they haunt the beaches of Trengganu. 1966Festival Malaysia 1966: Calendar of Events 8 (caption) A giant leathery turtle of the East Coast of the Malay peninsula. 1969A. Bellairs Life of Reptiles I. ii. 41 Some workers have believed that the huge leathery turtle (Dermochelys)..is more primitive than the rest.
Add: Hence ˈleatheriness n.
1920A. Huxley Leda 70 The buttered leatheriness of a Jew's face. 1982N.Y. Times 9 July c22/4 This was replaced by a mushroom and scallion omelet of a leatheriness fit to rival Charlie Chaplin's famous boot. |