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Meanings of coriaceous in inglés
Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable.
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Examples for "leathery"
Examples for "leathery"
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Least of all by police sergeant Fletcher, played by leathery Bryan Brown.
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The eyes in his leathery, brown face had grown hard as jade.
3
Rowan could still recall the feel of his leathery hand on hers.
4
He jiggled one of the pink, leathery cloves in his right palm.
5
The outer coating was thin and leathery, and of a dull yellow.
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Jerusalem, a human cannon, blasted at the top of his leathered lungs.
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When I told my mother, she leathered me till I couldn't walk.
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Certainly not the students, who pile in to get leathered on the cheap.
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Few builders have failed now to adopt the leathered lip.
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He was leathered by sun and insects worked on him.
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He sighed and worked his jaws on the leatherlike substance.
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Laril watched her odd skin darken; then its shimmer died to reveal a leatherlike hide.
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Wooley managed to shake herself out of her stupor to inspect some of the leatherlike pouches.
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Their gloves had an outer layer of leatherlike material and were built to withstand heavy use and scrapes, but Victor was overly cautious anyway.
Usage of coriaceous in inglés
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Swallowing fear he tried again but the slick, coriaceous walls held him fast.
2
On the barren flank of a rock grows a tree with coriaceous and dry leaves.
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A small-growing tree, with coriaceous leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers.
4
A neat little shrubby plant, with small ovate, coriaceous leaves, and fragrant yellow and cream flowers.
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The rest of the forest furnishes only trees with large, coriaceous, glossy leaves, that have plain edges.
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They are fleshy fungi, not coriaceous.
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The abdomen fits closely over the cephalothorax, and the epidermis, which has usually a metallic lustre, is sometimes coriaceous.
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The leaves are of a light, pleasing green shade, coriaceous, and glossy, and remain on the plant during winter.
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He brought us the branch of a shrub, called uzao, with small leaves like those of cassia, very coriaceous and glossy.
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It is a prostrate plant, with coriaceous glossy leaves with small pellucid dots, and of great value for planting in the shade.
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The genus, or rather family, of Epeira, is here characterized by many singular forms; some species have pointed coriaceous shells, others enlarged and spiny tibiae.
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"It is the bark (meaning the coriaceous covering) of the putrefied cayman that is the cause," say the natives.
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Swallowing fear he tried again but the slick, coriaceous walls held him fast.
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On the barren flank of a rock grows a tree with coriaceous and dry leaves.
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A small-growing tree, with coriaceous leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers.
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A neat little shrubby plant, with small ovate, coriaceous leaves, and fragrant yellow and cream flowers.
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