leathery

With its soft fur, leathery nose, rounded ears, and big eyes, most people seem to melt when near one.

The main valve regulating blood flow out of the heart gets stiff, leathery and constricted.

Druzil folded his leathery wings around him as if to privately consider the question.

There was a shifting under me, followed by the leathery smell of my dad's sheriff jacket. Charlie staggered under my weight.

A leathery bat-like creature with a four foot wingspan and a tail that ended in a three-pointed barb.

His clean-shaved face was leathery too, with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

Any of several coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Agathis, especially A. australis of New Zealand, having broad leathery leaves.

It solidifies into a foam within 30 seconds and becomes a flexible, leathery substance over the course of several hours.

Most disturbing are the creature's paws, which are like leathery black hands. . . almost human in shape, with a thumb for gripping.

With its leathery skin, long tail, short legs, and needle-like teeth, the Nothosaur resembled a prehistoric crocodile.

Leaves decussate, leathery, glabrous, with a conspicuous marginal vein and numerous, straight lateral veins.

Your favourite colour is leathery brown, reflected in your natural calm in a crisis, in tune with your star sign, Capricorn.

voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin; can inflict painful bites.

His skin had lost its luster and had a dull, leathery look, like a chicken wing left in the freezer too long.

But over the years she got used to it, and her leathery mouth would seize the bait as a prize.

Thepriest lifted a large jar filled with distilled spirits into the air. Floating inside was a leathery ball-shaped object.

testa leathery, seeds fully covered by an aril and adnate to testa; embryo curved.

Young branches tetragonous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, leathery or thinly leathery, often shining, margin entire, venation pinnate.

medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves.

Leaves sessile, linear to subulate or linear-lanceolate, leathery, usually persistent, margin slightly swollen, apex usually acuminate.

Leaf blade usually elliptic, leathery, apex acute to acuminate, abaxially scattered punctate; bracteoles close to calyx.

Thin, not leathery, and of sufficient thickness to avoid creases .

more full-bodied, with soft tannins and earthy, leathery flavours and spice notes that are more like liquorice and anise.

insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.

Leaves alternate, leathery or nearly so, rarely papery, conspicuously reticulate, base asymmetric, margin entire or toothed.

farkleberry: a shrub or small tree (Vaccinium arboreum) of the southeast United States, having leathery leaves and hard black berries.

any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers.

Leaf blade elliptic-oblong or broadly elliptic to orbicular, thickly leathery, margin laxly spinose dentate; calyx and pedicels glabrous.

Leaves alternate; stipules absent; leaf blade leathery. Flowers small, in axillary clusters, sometimes racemose.

In no more time than the telling might take, the kobold was reduced to a pile of rags, bones, and leathery hide.

pericarp leathery, circumscissile, thickened along line of dehiscence.

Mistletoe, a woody plant with leathery green leaves and white berries, is hung above doorways during the Christmas season.

Young shoots glandular. Leaf blade thinly leathery. Pedicel densely glandular; ovary densely glandular, viscid.

An evergreen tropical American tree(Theobroma cacao) having leathery, ellipsoid, ten-ribbed fruits borne on the trunks and older branches.

tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya.

Foliage is leathery, mid-green and large, with a good resistance to fungal diseases.

Leaflets leathery, elliptic, secondary and tertiary veins adaxially impressed in dry material; inflorescence a corymbose panicle, glabrous.

Culm sheaths thickly leathery, brown, smooth, glossy, with dark brown hairs; culm internodes glaucous, white hispid.

Seeds globose, compressed, with a thick, leathery testa.

This is a lowland species with distinctive, smooth, leathery leaf blades and a rather dense panicle of setose, awned spikelets.

leaf blade leathery, lacking chalk glands and crystals, margin usually entire, occasionally toothed or lobed.

Quarren have the ability to change the color of their leathery skin, but this is usually only demonstrated during mating rituals.

The carnivorous reptilian have bony ridges along their spines, leathery wings, two clawed legs, and piercing yellow eyes.

vigorous evergreen climbing plant of South America having glossy leathery foliage and golden yellow flowers.

Leaf blade leathery, broadly obovate or broadly elliptic, rounded or obcordate, netting veins obvious.

tunic brown, sometimes lustrous, leathery, prominently reticulate veined, apex fibrous or subreticulate.

Mediterranean evergreen tree (Olea europaea) having fragrant white flowers, usually lance-shaped leathery leaves, and edible drupes.

Leathery sea turtles bob lazily offshore, and the light cacophony of birdsong accents the ambient sound of wind and waves.

Ovary 20-70-carpellate; stamens 25 or more; petals united into a calyptra, thick, leathery, becoming woody when dry.

bud scales leathery, rounded, apiculate, outside densely pubescent and densely scaly.

tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns .

Leaves thickly leathery. Flowers reddish. Ovary white pubescent until formation of young fruit.

Leaf blade usually lanceolate to ovate, rarely linear or subulate, herbaceous, rarely leathery.

Spike simple, never branched at base; glumes slightly shorter than or equaling lemma, leathery, winged.

evergreen oak of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark.

petiole short; leaf blade simple, thinly leathery, margin entire, venation pinnate.

leaf blade leathery or sometimes membranous, margin entire, undulate-dentate, or rugose.

segments broadly ovate to oblong, membranous or leathery, abaxially usually transversely winged in fruit, apex obtuse, acute, or awned.

Berry red, purplish, orange, or yellowish, globose or ellipsoid, fleshy, mealy, or leathery.

stipules absent; leaf blade elliptic or broadly to narrowly ovate, leathery, margin serrate.

leaf blade usually yellow-green when dry, leathery, veinlets reticulate, margin entire.

Fruit a septicidal capsule, membranous, leathery, or crustaceous.

Leaves alternate, leathery, glabrous, margin entire.

leaflets obovate-orbicular, sometimes broadly elliptic, leathery, abaxially glaucous, adaxially green and shiny, margin thickened.

Leaves subsessile, scale-like, shortly terete or linear, small, margin entire, often fleshy or leathery, with salt-secreting glands.

A spiny evergreen shrub or tree (Citrus aurantifolia), native to Asia and having leathery leaves, fragrant white flowers, and edible fruit.

anthers yellow. Disc wholly enveloping carpels, red-purple, leathery.

The room was impregnated with that special leathery acid smell peculiar to the mountaineers.

leaf blade leathery to papery, glabrous, margin serrulate to serrate or denticulate.

Other nasty effects: wrinkled and leathery skin, brown sunspots, and cataracts.

Leaf blade leathery; pistillode conic to cylindric; drupes indehiscent, enclosed by persistent calyx lobes.

Leaves thin leathery, petiole slender; staminode teeth less than 2 mm in fruit.

Young branchlets, leaves, and valves yellowish green when dry; leaf blade thickly leathery; valves not rugose and curly when fruit ripe.

Leathery: The scent of old leather club chairs, most frequently associated with older red wines.

evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers.

style longer than stamens. Follicles ca. 1 cm, orange, pericarp thinly leathery and slightly bright when dry, with persistent style.

Young shoots, pedicel, and (usually) ovary glabrous; leaf blade leathery.

Fruits indehiscent, drupaceous or baccate, fruit wall fleshy or leathery.

Tracy says, 'has a beautiful, cherry note with leathery tones and it worked well with the mushroom and the sweetness of the onions.

globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh.

leaf blade membranous or leathery, margin serrate, venation pinnate, the 2 basal lateral veins usually with tertiary veins.

Fruit a group of follicles, usually leathery, less often woody, dehiscent when mature.

Agent Blackburn was next to him, his helmet off, leathery brown skin gleaming with perspiration.

Signs can include dark spots, wrinkles, droopy and leathery skin and broken blood vessels.

The palate is full and round with plum fruits and the soft leathery tannins add length and structure to the wine.

tunic black, leathery, appressed hairy inside distally.

California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers.

Leaf blade leathery; fruit glabrous or with sparse reddish brown pubescence.

Capsule ellipsoid, leathery, not enclosed in or sitting on fleshy perianth parts, 1-locular, laterally split along one side.

Young branchlets, leaves, and valves puce when dry; leaf blade papery to thinly leathery; valves rugose and curly when fruit ripe.

The false child turned its leathery head to watch him go, with no particular interest.

The skin of the mummies has also been treated andappears leathery with preserved facial features.

tunic red-brown, thinly leathery or hard and leathery, entire or outer layer splitting.

leaflet blades leathery, sometimes with stipels.

Leaf blade thinly leathery, lateral veins prominent adaxially; capsule glabrous.

In the specimens we examined (including the type), the leaves were thinly leathery.

leaf blade subleathery to leathery, with dense pellucid fragrant oil dots, margin crenulate or rarely entire.

Sepals 5, free, leathery, with conspicuous midrib, margin membranous, apex long acuminate.

stigma capitate. Berry ovoid, exocarp leathery.

A leathery brown dwarf would show up guarding the entrance to the unconscious.

pericarp leathery or fibrous-woody, tuberculous or woody-spiny.

Leaf blade slightly leathery, margin entire to completely 3-foliolate; nodes often shortly prickly.

Fruit woody or leathery, with keel-like prominence or wing, indehiscent.

leaf blade leathery, secondary veins basal and parallel to leaf axis or pinnate.

leaf blade mostly leathery, margin entire, rarely dentate or lobed.

Leaf blade usually leathery, adaxially shiny; peduncle usually longer than petiole.

Plants climbing; leaf blade leathery, veins abaxially obscure or only slightly distinct.

leaf blade leathery. Bracts conspicuous at peduncle base.

Calyx cup-shaped, leathery, pulverulent pubescent, 4-lobed, lobes triangular.

Herbs perennial, loosely clumped, with short soboles that leave brown leathery basal scales.

Almost all of tea's thick waxy leaves, apart from the topmost shoots, are bitter and leathery and difficult to bite through.

leaf blade herbaceous to somewhat leathery, entire.

Leaf blade leathery, with palmate veins, margin entire.

They are a humanoid species with coarse, leathery skin and bald heads.

seed scales thin, woody or leathery, without apophysis and umbo.

Fruit a drupe, capsule, or schizocarp, leathery or fragile.

Branches pubescent when young; leaf blade papery to leathery, margin entire; female sepals 4.

And most important, in our skin, where they lie in wait as stealthy sentinels should microbes breach the leathery fortress of our epidermis.

Current year branchlets slender, terete; leaf blade thinly leathery, abaxially pale green; sepals glabrous.

tunic pale brown to brown, thinly leathery, splitting.

The outside may meanwhile take on a rough, corky, leathery appearance (Plate 41).

Fruit nearly oblong or nearly pyriform, woody or leathery, loculicidally dehiscent into 5 valves, inner surface long woolly.

Culm sheath apically leathery, drying and splitting on culm, blade tiny, drying when young.

When Dionisstumbled across a leathery fetus-like object in a priest's collection, he resolved to learn the truth about it.

Fruit exocarp leathery, dehiscent when dry.

Follicles sometimes fewer than sepals, free or basally connate, erect or spreading, membranous or leathery, 1- to many seeded.

Style 2-parted; sepals margins ciliolate; leaf blade thinly leathery, secondary veins adaxially obscure.

bracts numerous, overlapping, leathery, deciduous, apex deeply 3-lobed, each bract subtending 3 flowers.

Sepals 5, leathery, concave, imbricate, outer 2 smaller, orbicular, inner ones usually broadly ovate or elliptic.

Leaves opposite; leaf blade leathery, pinnately veined.

leaf blade elliptic or oblong, leathery or papery, basal veins 3, margin denticulate.

seed brown, seed coat leathery, albumen absent.

tunic brown to red-brown, leathery, entire or splitting.

The second man was tall and lean, his face tanned and wind-whipped into an impressive leathery crust.

Fruit a berry, fleshy or leathery and dry, indehiscent.

A silvery blue fish(Oligoplites saurus)of Atlantic waters, having leathery skin, yellow fins , and five spines on the anal fin.

One says it is a snake. Another says it is a leathery sail. A third says it is a tree trunk.

Leaves thick leathery, ovate, elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate; inflorescences axillary, rachis 2-3 cm.

No matter how, X100's elegant, classic leathery design is totally unbeatable.

Her skin was leathery, her hands rough.

pericarp leathery or nearly woody.

Fruit 7-8 mm, exocarp leathery, densely tomentose, testa black, hilum small; petals without scales.

Calyx lobes 5, leathery, margin glandular-ciliate.

Fruit fusiform to subglobose or ovoid, longitudinally 5-ridged or -winged, dry, leathery.

pericarp thinly leathery, detached from 5-winged axis.

Current year branchlets stout, 2-ribbed; leaf blade thickly leathery, abaxially reddish brown when dry; sepals pubescent.

25 (24) Leaf blade long lanceolate, leathery, margin finely remotely serrate.

Leaf blade leathery, lateral veins more than 10 on each side.

Fruit a berry or leathery capsule.

Petals white, obovate-oblong, ca. 6 mm, leathery.

Leaf blade thinly leathery; peduncle slender, with short hairs; petals 4-5 mm.

Leaves thinly leathery, 7-14 cm wide; glands on petiole apex; male sepals woolly.

leaflets 1-5-jugate, leathery, margin entire or sparsely dentate.

Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade oblong, leathery; sepals ovate, 7-8 mm, margin serrulate, outside velutinous.

Leaves leathery, adaxially glabrous except on midvein and lateral veins; 2 inner petals bifid to half.

Fruit leathery, apex with long fishtail-shaped wing, wing 2-4 cm; calyx white.

Leaf blade thinly leathery, apex not retuse, style ca. 1. 2 mm, glabrous.

Bulbs clustered, cylindric, 0. 5--1 cm in diam. ; tunic brown, leathery, apex entire or laciniate.

persistent sepals slightly thickened, approximately leathery, semiorbicular or nephroid, 3. 5-4 mm wide.

Seed ripening in 1st year, drupelike, dry, or leathery.

Leaf blade thickly leathery, apex acute and spiny, margin entire or 1-3-spinulose-serrate.

2 (1) Leaves firmly leathery, petiole stout; staminode teeth more than 2 mm in fruit.

Leaflets thinly leathery. Sepals (4 or)5(or 6), adaxially more subsessile glandular hairy; veins arcuate, confluent at apex.

Leaflets leathery to subleathery, abaxially pale green; outer sepals of male flower 3--7 mm.

bracteoles leaflike, leathery, ovate and 2-3 mm when young, later lanceolate and 8-10 mm.

Cauline leaves linear, 5-6 mm, distally leathery, glandular hairy abaxially and at proximal margin, chalk gland 1.

9 (8) Leaf blade small, 4. 5-8 cm, leathery, obelliptic to ovate-elliptic, apex obtuse or obtusely acute.

Culm sheaths deciduous, leathery, hispid, base of outer margin usually with an arrow like expansion below point of attachment;

Leaf blade large, up to 70 cm, leathery or thickly leathery, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate;

Culm sheaths deciduous, leathery, ribbed-striate when dry, glabrous, margins densely ciliate, apex slightly asymmetrical, broadly arched;

Culm sheaths persistent, irregularly brown spotted, triangular, leathery, white powdery, densely brown hairy, margins long ciliate;

Culm sheaths yellow-brown when dry, rectangular, leathery, glabrous, distal margins densely yellow ciliolate, apex asymmetrical;

Culm sheath persistent, triangularly narrowly rounded, leathery, base sparsely purple-brown setose, margins purple setose;

Culm sheaths deciduous, asymmetrical, leathery, initially with brown tuberculate hairs, apex concave;

Culm sheaths gradually deciduous, green, about as long as internodes or slightly longer, leathery, sparsely setose, margins withered;

Leaves simple, shortly petiolate, leathery, venation camptodromous, margin serrate or entire;

lower glume leathery to bony, enveloping spikelet, body smooth or transversely constricted, flanks usually winged above;

Leaves dimorphic, either floating with thick leathery blades and long petioles or submersed with thin, papery blades and short petioles;

bracts and sepals leathery, orbicular , covered with grayish silky hairs outside;

Culm sheaths deciduous, thinly leathery, initially white powdery, silky hairy, apex later glabrous, concave;

Culm sheaths yellow-brown, densely purple spotted, leathery, base setose, margins yellow-white, shortly ciliate;

Leaf blade leathery; abaxial surface conspicuously pale and glaucous, scales sparse, small, golden yellow to brown;

Culm sheaths deciduous, broadly flabellate, thickly leathery, apex narrow, brown setose;

Culm sheaths persistent, light yellow-brown, narrowly rounded, leathery, glabrous;

lower glume leathery, black-brown at maturity, glossy, glabrous below middle, upper part and margins hispid with brown hairs;

evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes ;

Leaf blade densely puberulent, leathery, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate;

sepals fleshy, approximately leathery, nephroid;

Culm sheaths tardily deciduous, leathery, densely stiffly dark brown hairy toward base, apex truncate;

glumes leathery, veins conspicuous, sometimes with a short mucro at apex;

Culm sheaths deciduous, thickly leathery, densely hispid, apex slightly concave;

Culm sheaths drying entire on culms, initially yellow-green, leathery, densely brown or dark brown hairy, apex papery;

Culm sheaths purple-green, shorter than internode, leathery, white tomentose and dark brown hairy, base corky;

Culm sheaths deciduous, thickly leathery, rigid, glossy, glabrous, apex slightly asymmetrically arched;

lower glume membranous, thinly cartilaginous, or becoming leathery below, flat to broadly convex, veins indistinct, laterally 2-keeled;

sepals valvate, equal to much shorter than floral tube, membranous to thickly leathery, persistent;

leaf blade leathery, usually with prominent, closely spaced, reticulate veins;

leaf blade leathery; abaxial surface scales dense, yellow to brown, large or small, unequal or all similar;

leaf blade often carnose or leathery, margin often crenate, serrate, or dentate, rarely entire;

Capsule obconical, small, for most of its length enclosed in adnate calyx tube and persistent perianth segments, leathery, apex 2-8-valvate;

Culm sheaths deciduous, leathery, initially with dark brown, spiny hairs;

lemmas leathery, lower lemma glabrous, flatter and slightly longer than upper;

Leaf blade leathery; abaxial surface densely woolly, scales very small, brown;

sheath thinly leathery, glabrous, margin ciliate;

Leaf blade leathery; abaxial surface scales overlapping, often stalked, in 2 or more layers, brown or orange-pink;

bracts densely imbricate, outer ones leathery, sterile, inner ones membranous, slimy, 1-flowered;

Culm sheaths brown, leathery, papery and split at apex, densely brown or dark brown hairy;

imprisoned in a leathery membrane inside a choky shell

exocarp thinly leathery when dry, brownish yellow, smooth;

lemmas papery to leathery, 3-veined with lateral veins evanescent upward, glabrous, keeled, acute;

pericarp thinly leathery, rough abaxially, horizontally striate adaxially;

lemmas lanceolate to narrowly ovate, membranous or leathery, hispid or villous, apex 2-toothed to deeply 2-cleft, awned from between lobes;

calyx leathery, broadly cup-shaped, truncate at apex;

lower glume cartilaginous to leathery, often spinulose;

leathery (adj. ) : 1ike leather in appearance or texture. tough and flexible

Floral tube perigynous, hemi-epigynous, or epigynous, persistent in fruit, membranous to leathery, often 6-12-ribbed;

Leaf blade leathery, oblong-elliptic, or ovate, apex caudate-acuminate, lateral veins 15-22 pairs, raised on both surfaces;

glochids leathery, 1-1. 5 mm, bases widened and confluent into a narrow wing, sometimes with several short glochids along center line;

testa thinly leathery or membranous;

coarse, hard, leathery, rough, tough

Leaves opposite, leathery or subleathery, entire, sometimes with 2 basal glands on abaxial surface;

Leaf blade papery or leathery, variable in shape;

Male flowers: sepals suborbicular, leathery, densely ciliolate at margin, inner 2 large, outer 3 small;

Culm sheaths green or yellow-brown, basally suboblong, leathery, sparsely setose, apex broad;

stigmas semilunate to U-shaped. Berry small, ca. 1 cm or less, pericarp thinly leathery, blackish when dried;

Female flowers borne within 2 united, leathery, and hardening bractlets;

ligule green, entire, ca. 4 mm, leathery, margin ciliate;

Seeds 1 or 2 per locule, enclosed in a thin white leathery aril;

Capsule black at maturity, long ellipsoid, 2--2. 5 cm, thinly leathery, sparsely hairy;

peduncle ca. 2. 5 cm, scale like sheaths dense, leathery;

sepals ovate, 2. 5-4 mm, leathery, outside densely villous, apex acute to acuminate;

Leaf blade leathery, 2. 2-4 cm, abaxially sparsely rust-brown pubescent, margin crenate;

Calyx green, ca. 2 cm, leathery, apex 3-lobed;

tepals 9, white, outer 3 thinly leathery, oblong-elliptic, 6-7 cm long, inner 2 whorls smaller, usually fleshy, obovate, 5-6 cm long;

Calyx tubular, 1. 5-3 cm, submembranous or leathery when dry, apex irregularly (4 or)5-lobed;