单词 | coriaceous |
释义 | coriaceousadj. 1. Resembling leather in texture, appearance, etc.; leathery. Chiefly used in Natural History. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [adjective] > tough > like leather leathern1513 leathery1552 leatherly1573 leather-like1592 coriaceous1674 leather-hard1960 1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 87 A certain fungus of Sicily, with a blewish pulp, and a coriaceous shell. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 363 An inflammatory and coreaceous Thickness of the Blood. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 357 The shell of the legume being coriaceous or leathery. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 442 The middle part is coriaceous and the margin membranous. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 184 Common Ivy..with coriaceous, shining leaves. 2. Made of leather, leathern. rare, affected. ΚΠ 1824 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 45/1 To invest with these coriaceous integuments [Hessian boots] the leg of a liege subject at York. 1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 136 The Kaffir..enveloped in his coriaceous covering. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1674 |
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