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

Example Sentences

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 Hard, Miron Elisha

Sporangium very large, obovoid-oblong, stipitate or subsessile; the wall a greatly thickened membrane, polished and shining within and without, from alutaceous or pale umber to dark-brown in color, destitute of lime.

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

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 Hard, Miron Elisha

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 Hard, Miron Elisha

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 Hard, Miron Elisha