leathery
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈlɛðəri/
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coriáceo
- The outer skin of the fruit was leathery, which protected the soft flesh inside.
- leathery leaves
- large and leathery
Take your leathery hands off of my rhubarb.
- Take your leathery hands off of my rhubarb.
- And then it it pulls back and it shows him and it's skin has turned leathery brown.
- And what that means is that the rest of the heart has to work a lot harder to try to contract when you've got a thin, leathery scar.
- It's kind of like that, like soft rubbery, feel like leathery rubbery.
- They smell really good, leathery leather.
- The the nipple was not only nippling, it was hairy, it was leathery, it was massive.
- So these are the sort of brown, leathery kind of color and they have just a little bit of elastic here.
Examples
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Here, almost the entire United States away, the mushrooms were leathery and dry.
Fiction book (1997) -
"The old man's voice, a leathery whisper, sounded as if it came from far away."
Fiction book (1993) -
One that first caught my eye has this Forest Green kind of so leathery feel right here.
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Thick and, yeah, leathery dark green.
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It's kind of a like a suede sort of leathery material.
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Anyway, you've got this fantastic little brush roll that actually has sort of a leathery feel to it.
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What they have in common is the toughness, the wary eyes, and leathery skin.
Fiction book (1997) -
Afra was who knew how old; her face was leathery and worn like any skin tanned by years of sunlight.
Fiction book (1994) -
I heard her nails scrabbling at the wooden lid, the leathery crackling of her skin.
Fiction book (1997) -
Spanish oak in Barbados is not an oak at all, but a leathery-leaved member of the legume family.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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5.7
Having a smooth, tough surface like the skin used for bags or jackets
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9.9
Thick and tough like leather
Made from animal skin treated to be thick and smooth
Having a tough, smooth, flexible feel like animal skin used for bags and jackets
Having thick, tough leaves like leather that help the plant keep water
Leaves that are thick, tough, and do not bend easily
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A stiff fern with thick leaves split near the middle that grows on dry rocky ground in western North America
How Leather-like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word leathery comes from leather, the tough animal 'skin' used for shoes and jackets, plus the ending -y which means 'like' or 'full of'. So, something leathery is 'like' leather, tough but flexible, which is why we call sun-damaged skin, strong jackets, or thick leaves 'leathery'.