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leathery

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Adjective
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leath=er=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

leatherya. 
     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.

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, wiry

ROGET THESAURUS

leathery

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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