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leatherlike |
leathern |
leatherneck |
leatherwood |
leatherwork |
leathery
| leathery grape fern
| leathery polypody
| leathery turtle
| leave
| leave alone
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leathery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective leathery has 1 sense
- leathery(s = adj.all) coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike - resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable; Array Derived form noun leather1
CIDE DICTIONARY
leathery, a.
Resembling leather in appearance or consistency; tough; as, nothing but a leathery steak left to eat. Grew. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
leathery, adj.
1 like leather.
2 (esp. of meat etc.) tough.
1 like leather.
2 (esp. of meat etc.) tough.
Derivative
leatheriness n.
THESAURUS
leathery
buff, cartilaginous, chewy, cohesive, coriaceous, durable, fibrous, gristly, hard, hardy, lasting, leather, leatherlike, leathern, resistant, ropy, sinewy, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, tenacious, tough, tough as leather, untiring, vigorous, viscid, wiryROGET THESAURUS
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Tenacity
N tenacity, toughness, strength, (cohesion), grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion), sequacity, stubbornness (obstinacy), glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity), leather, white leather, whitleather, gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength, tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather, stubborn, unbreakable, indivisible, atomic.
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