alutaceous

American  

[al-yuh-tey-shuhs] / ˌæl yəˈteɪ 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 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 Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

The columella a thin alutaceous, granulose-roughened layer, extending along the base of the plasmodiocarp.

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

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 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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

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