The third glume is chartaceous to sub-coriaceous and paleate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
They are generally leathery (coriaceous) fungi, and many grow on wood. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference
The first glume is coriaceous dorsally flattened, obtuse, margins narrowly incurved. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Leaves are long, narrow rigid, involute, spreading and recurved and thickly coriaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Summit forests are low (8-15m) and species-poor; their leaves are almost entirely coriaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Canaima National Park, Venezuela] Reference
The second glume is as long as the first, coriaceous, concave, acute or obtuse, awned or not. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is thickly coriaceous, 5-ribbed, oblong-lanceolate, and ribs with long recurved spines. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The marked distinguishing characters between the two species are the coriaceous dark-green leaves in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The first glume is oblong or ovate, flat, smooth, coriaceous, pectinately margined with upcurved spines. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is coriaceous or chartaceous, dorsally compressed, with incurved margins, usually 2-keeled. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The fourth glume is membranous when young, but later on it becomes thick, coriaceous and rugose at the surface. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The indigenous vegetation is generally of a class suited to resist the droughts, having hard, coriaceous leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The spikelet nearly always consists of four glumes, the first or the first and the second being firmer and coriaceous or chartaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is thick, coriaceous and closely embraces the rachis of the spike by its involute margin and the other glumes are within. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The leaves are alternate, oblong, short petioled, nearly coriaceous, about 2 feet long by 6 inches wide, entire or undivided, and of a bright green color. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference
This attains, I am told, a large size: it is not very unlike in habit a Melanorrhaea, and its young leaves are tinged with red, the mature ones are coriaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Its upper parts and sides are defended by a coat, or rather cloak, of mail, of a coriaceous nature, but exceeding in inflexibility sole-leather of equal thickness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference
The genus, or rather family of Epeira, is here characterized by many singular forms; some species have pointed coriaceous shells, others enlarged and spiny tibiæ. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
On the barren flank of a rock grows a tree with coriaceous and dry leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Leaves 3-6 x 2-3 cm, ovate or elliptic-oblong, apiculate, rounded at base, sub-coriaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
When young it is somewhat fleshy and pliant, then it becomes tough, coriaceous, and hard when dry. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
"It is the bark (meaning the coriaceous covering) of the putrefied cayman that is the cause," say the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
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