Coriaceous meaning

kôr'ē-ā'shəs, kŏr'-
Leathery in texture.

Coriaceous leaves.

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Of or like leather.
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Leathery in texture.

Coriaceous leaves.

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(botany) Resembling leather; leathery.

1997 This species is similar to E. vagans Wallich in the texture of the leaves, which are more thickly coriaceous and have fewer crenulations on margin; the large globose capsules are white spotted. — JinShuang Ma, "New Species of Euonymus (Celastraceae) from East and South Asia", Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 93-111, Abstract.

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Origin of coriaceous

  • From Late Latin coriāceus from Latin corium leather sker-1 in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Coriaceous Sentence Examples

  • The coriaceous leaves of sclerophyllous plants also, to some extent, are similarly protective.

  • The entire valley of the Rio Grande, from El Paso to Brownsville, grows many species of cactus, and other prickly coriaceous shrubs.

  • li Fertile glume and pale cartilaginous, coriaceous or papery; empty glumes more delicate, usually herbaceous, the lowest usually smallest.

  • In the Argasidae the anterior portion of the dorsal surface of the body is extended forwards above the capitulum, so that this structure is concealed from above; the integument is fairly uniformly granular or coriaceous above and below; the palpi are simple and unmodified; there is no sucker beneath the claws in the adult, and there is only a slight structural difference between the sexes.

  • (A, B X 240; C, D X 540.) 't7 ' each consisting of a single series of large sporangia covered by a coriaceous indusium, which is attached to the central part of the receptacle.

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