chartaceous
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prettygoodwordchartaceous (kahr-TAY-shuhs) - adj., resembling paper or parchment; papery.
Used in, e.g., botany, as in a plant with chartaceous leaves. Adopted around 1650 from Latin chartāceus, from charta, sheet of paper (also, a document -- the Manga Carta is using this sense), from Greek chártēs, papyrus leaf, literally something to make marks on (so same root as character).
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Used in, e.g., botany, as in a plant with chartaceous leaves. Adopted around 1650 from Latin chartāceus, from charta, sheet of paper (also, a document -- the Manga Carta is using this sense), from Greek chártēs, papyrus leaf, literally something to make marks on (so same root as character).
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Date: 2014-01-20 11:56 pm (UTC)