leathery
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[edit]leathery (comparative more leathery or leatherier, superlative most leathery or leatheriest)
- Having the consistency, feel, or texture of leather.
- The beef jerky was tough and leathery.
- 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422:
- The Agaricales have basidiocarps which are fleshy to subfleshy or rarely, almost leathery (but if the latter then the hymenophore is not poroid).
- 2007 January 5, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times[1]:
- It is a staggering work, leathery and reliclike, with most of Pop Art embedded in its fragile surfaces.
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[edit]having properties of leather
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