alutaceous

American  

[al-yuh-tey-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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alutaceous

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

The columella reduced to a thin alutaceous layer of granules of lime, forming the base of the plasmodiocarp.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

The plasmodium of our species is white; as it approaches maturity a rosy metallic tinge supervenes, quickly changing to dull yellow or alutaceous.

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 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

Its habitat, its reddish or alutaceous cap, and its paler gills will clearly identify the species.

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