alutaceous

American  

[al-yuh-tay-shuhs] / ˌæl jəˈteɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.

2. having the color of soft brown leather.

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Etymology

Origin of alutaceous

1870–75; < Late Latin alūtācius, equivalent to Latin alūt ( a ) leather softened with alum + -ācius -acious (altered to -aceous ); Latin alūta appears to be a past participle ( alū- + -ta, feminine of -tus ) akin to alū- in alūmen alum ¹

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Example Sentences

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alutaceous

The color varies from whitish to alutaceous and yellowish.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

In the species last named the columella or sporangial base is alutaceous, not white; in Fries' species, while the columella if present may be white, the peridial walls are different, difficult to distinguish.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

The pileus is subcoriaceous, convex, then expanded and depressed, glabrous, rugulose, white, changing in drying to pale alutaceous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

The pileoli are fleshy, tough, becoming hard and corky, many times imbricated, sometimes growing very large, with many in a head; subzonate, finally tomentose; the plant very much branched, alutaceous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Pileus a little fleshy, convex then plane or depressed, at length somewhat repand, rugose-striate, reddish-pallid or alutaceous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

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