Leathery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Leathery \Leath"er*y\, a.
     Resembling leather in appearance or consistency; tough; as,
     nothing but a leathery steak left to eat. "A leathery skin."
     --Grew.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  leathery
       adj : resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable
             [syn: {coriaceous}, {leathered}, {leatherlike}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "leathery":
     buff, cartilaginous, chewy, cohesive, coriaceous, durable, fibrous,
     gristly, hard, hardy, lasting, leather, leatherlike, leathern,
     resistant, ropy, sinewy, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn,
     tenacious, tough, tough as leather, untiring, vigorous, viscid,
     wiry