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Definition of Coriaceous
1. Adjective. Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable.
Definition of Coriaceous
1. a. Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.
Definition of Coriaceous
1. Adjective. (botany) Resembling leather; leathery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coriaceous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Coriaceous
1. Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coriaceous
Literary usage of Coriaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"2 f. myrtifolia,\V. (Ь.) leaves perennial, coriaceous, small, oblong-orate, tuse
at the base, acute, mucronate at the apex, glabrous above, to- revolute at ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... feet very coriaceous oblanceolate or oblong-obovate sub- acute shining above
... smaller and less coriaceous and thick, the perianth-lobes persistent, ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... coriaceous, 1-celled and 1-seeded, surrounded at base by a dense ring of long
hairs; seed pendulous, orthotropous. Staminale and pistillate heads on ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Fruit small, dry aud coriaceous, beset with uncinate bristles, separating at
maturity into 2 ... Carpels separating from apex to base, coriaceous, roughish, ..."
5. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"unarmed : leaves elliptical, coriaceous, glabrous, ... spotted bark : thorns
bearing both leaves and flowers : leaves coriaceous, glabrous, obovate, ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Heeds many, flat or globose, testa coriaceous hard or thick and fleshy. ...
Capsule coriaceous. Seeds compressed, winged, or globose with a fleshy testa. ..."
7. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Nuts with a membranous or coriaceous wing, or unwinged. ... Leaves coriaceous,
glabrous, with tufts of hairs in the axils of lateral nerves, elliptic, ..."
8. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"A small tree, 10 to 20 ft. high, branched a little above the base ; branches
rather erect; leaves rigidly coriaceous, pungent-mucronate ; fruit in form and ..."
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