"leathery" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-us-leathery.ogg Forms: more leathery [comparative], leatherier [comparative], most leathery [superlative], leatheriest [superlative]
Etymology: From leather + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|leather|y}} leather + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|more|er}} leathery (comparative more leathery or leatherier, superlative most leathery or leatheriest)
  1. Having the consistency, feel, or texture of leather. Derived forms: leathery jacket, leathery turtle Translations (having properties of leather): кожен (kožen) (Bulgarian), nahkamainen (Finnish), nahkainen (Finnish), nahistunut (english: primarily of vegetables) (Finnish), ledern (German), läderartat (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "having properties of leather",
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