coriaceous

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CORIACEOUS, adjective [Latin , leather.] 1. Consisting of leather, or resembling leather; tough; as coriaceous concretions. 2. In botany, stiff, like leather or parchment; applied to a leaf, a calyx or capsule.
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