coriaceous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: co=ri=a=ceous

CIDE DICTIONARY

coriaceous, a. [L. coriaceous, fr. corium leather. See Cuirass.].

•  Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.  [1913 Webster]
•  Stiff, like leather or parchment.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

coriaceous, adj. like leather; leathery.

Etymology

LL coriaceus f. corium leather

ROGET THESAURUS

coriaceous

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.