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What does coriaceous mean?

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  1. (botany) Resembling leather; leathery.
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The fourth glume is membranous when young, but later on it becomes thick, coriaceous and rugose at the surface.
The first glume is coriaceous or chartaceous, dorsally compressed, with incurved margins, usually 2-keeled.
External cataphylls of lateral winter buds were round and coriaceous.
The exo-carp is coriaceous, thin, and dull, with glandular dots. Themesocarp is fleshy, whitish turning to yellow at maturity, with a granulose texture and astringent taste.
The upper organs of flight, when they are corneous or coriaceous at the base and membranous at the apex.
The coriaceous part of the hemelytra is of a purple tint, but the membranous part is brown.

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