chartaceous
/kɑːˈteɪʃəs
/adjective rare
Thin, dry, or flimsy like paper; papery.It is a shrub with chartaceous leaves....
- In these specimens the scales are long, linear, chartaceous, and erect.
- It has always seemed to me, Madam, that that same jaw-bone must have been either prodigiously strong and tough, or else the Philistine crania must have been of very chartaceous texture.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin chartaceus, from Latin charta 'paper, papyrus leaf' (see card1) + -eous.