coriaceous
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prettygoodwordTheme week! C-suite words. Or at least, words that begin with C -- none of them cookie (sorry, Cookie).
coriaceous (kohr-ee-AY-shuhs) - adj., of or resembling leather.
So a leather-bound book, regardless of whether it's real leather -- leathery is still coriaceous. That example aside, it's apparently used mostly used in botany (the domain of coriaceous leaves), though it seems useful elsewhere. From Medieval Latin coriāceus, leathern (which also, via Occitan > French gave us cuirass, leather body armor), from Latin corium, leather/skin + -aceous, adjectival ending.
---L.
coriaceous (kohr-ee-AY-shuhs) - adj., of or resembling leather.
So a leather-bound book, regardless of whether it's real leather -- leathery is still coriaceous. That example aside, it's apparently used mostly used in botany (the domain of coriaceous leaves), though it seems useful elsewhere. From Medieval Latin coriāceus, leathern (which also, via Occitan > French gave us cuirass, leather body armor), from Latin corium, leather/skin + -aceous, adjectival ending.
---L.
