leathery

Modifying Another Word

• quite: My tomatoes still have curly leaves and they now feel quite leathery - I think they are going to stay that way now.

Modifies a noun

• foliage: They are viciously armed with thorns and have leathery, dark green foliage.
• skin: The intact fruit has a smooth leathery skin above the thick fibrous layer.
• texture: Leaves are thicker than normal, of a leathery texture and often have a purple tinge to the veins on their underside.
• wing: The cookie beetle has hard leathery wings which meet along the mid line of the back.
• leave: Plants with caustic sap, spines, tough leathery leaves or very aromatic foliage are not usually on the menu.
• face: He has the dark, leathery face of someone who has worked hard, out of doors, for most of his life.

Used with adjective complement

• have: They are viciously armed with thorns and have leathery, dark green foliage.
• feel: My tomatoes still have curly leaves and they now feel quite leathery - I think they are going to stay that way now.

Preposition: in

• texture: Later the mid-green leaves appear, leathery in texture and with a light sheen.