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LEATHERY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable
Synonyms:
coriaceous; leathered; leatherlike; leathery
Classified under:
Similar:
tough (resistant to cutting or chewing)
Derivation:
leather (an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning)
Context examples:
I passed close to the pterodactyl swamp, and as I did so, with a dry, crisp, leathery rattle of wings, one of these great creatures—it was twenty feet at least from tip to tip—rose up from somewhere near me and soared into the air.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was the man of all others whom I should have chosen—Tarp Henry, of the staff of Nature, a thin, dry, leathery creature, who was full, to those who knew him, of kindly humanity.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The whole group of us were covered for an instant by a canopy of leathery wings, and I had a momentary vision of a long, snake-like neck, a fierce, red, greedy eye, and a great snapping beak, filled, to my amazement, with little, gleaming teeth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
