Leathery Sentence Examples

Leathery fingers wrapped around her body.

The plants generally have an erect stem with a crown of leaves which are often leathery; the anthers open introrsely and the fruit is a berry or capsule.

On the sea coast there is the leathery turtle (Dermochelis) and also the green turtle (Chelone).

An American Aphid of the genus Pemphigus produces black, ragged, leathery and cut-shaped excrescences on the young branches of the hickory.

It has large compound leaves composed of four or five pairs, with a terminal odd one, of short-stalked, oblong, blunt, leathery leaflets, and inconspicuous green flowers.

Snakes are oviparous; they deposit from ten to eighty eggs of an ellipsoid shape, covered with a soft leathery shell, in places where they are exposed to and hatched by moist heat.

It has round, ash-coloured, smooth branches; lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, somewhat leathery, shining leaves, 4 to 61 in.

The cup-shaped flowers have six regular segments in two rows, as many free stamens, and a three-celled ovary with a sessile stigma, which ripens into a leathery many-seeded capsule.

The eggs are elliptical in shape, both poles being equal, and are covered with a shell which may be thin and leathery or hard and calcareous.

But it varies much in form and scaling, and some most aberrant varieties have been fixed by artificial selection, the principal being the king-carp or mirror-carp, in which the scales are enlarged and reduced in number, forming more or less regular longitudinal series on the sides, and the leather-carp, in which the scales have all but disappeared, the fish being covered with a thick, leathery skin.

It may be recognized at once by its pale, green, smooth, leathery leaves, divided into seven or nine segments, three to six inches long and one to two inches broad.

Its leathery dark green leaves are shaped like those of a Dandelion, and arranged in a rosette, and the flowers are glowing scarlet, 4 inches across, borne singly on tall bare stems.

The fruit is one-seeded, with a tough, leathery or hard wall.

The fruit of Butomus is of interest in having the seeds borne over the inner face of the wall of the leathery pod (follicle).

The tree bears large compound leaves with two to four pairs of leathery lanceolate pointed leaflets about 3 in.

The fruit is leathery or fleshy, opening irregularly.

Evergreen oaks are a marked characteristic of the period, more than half the Swiss species being allied to living American forms. Fig-trees referred to 17 species occur, all with undivided leathery leaves; one is close to the banyan, another to the indiarubber-tree.

They are valued for their leathery leaves and pendant catkins.

My tomatoes still have curly leaves and they now feel quite leathery - I think they are going to stay that way now.

They are viciously armed with thorns and have leathery, dark green foliage.

Being exposed to the sun can make you old before your time - making your skin look saggy, wrinkly and leathery!

Scierophyllous Plants.These are plants with evergreen leathery ives, and typical of tropical, sub-tropical, and warm temperate gions; e.g., Quercus Suber, Ilex Aquifohium, Hedera Helix, Eucalyps Globulus, Rosmarinus officinalis.

The leaves are thick, leathery, and narrowly-oblong in shape, and in one kind prettily variegated.

It is evergreen, and easily recognised by its leathery, bright green, three-nerved leaves, elliptic in shape.

Senecio Rotundifolius - A shrub recently come from New Zealand, with large rounded leathery leaves covered with a yellowish felt underneath.

Viburnum Davidii - Of little flower beauty, this distinct species is valuable for its evergreen character, hardiness, and the mound-like cushions formed by its handsome leathery foliage.

It is evergreen, foliage is handsome, each leaf 3 to 6 inches long, leathery, and of a lustrous dark green.

Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina) - N. domestica is a distinct and graceful shrub with dark leathery leaves, often flushed with red towards autumn.

This is a low evergreen with the spreading and freely-branched habit of a Cotoneaster, with small leathery leaves and inconspicuous flowers, followed by small berries covered with tiny black specks.

The fall is reduced to a narrow strap half an inch or less in width, but the standard is large, erect, and while the small fall is stout and firm, almost leathery, is delicate and flimsy in texture.

It has leathery leaves, and its erect stems bear long, handsome, and slightly-drooping racemes of pure white flowers, rather like a Lily-of-the-Valley, half an inch across, ten or twenty of which are borne on a stem.

America, its stout leathery fronds once cut to the midrib being 4 or 5 feet long, and produced on stout red stalks from a prostrate fleshy stem or trunk.

The leaves are about 2 inches long, the margins spiny-toothed, the texture leathery, and the midrib extending beyond the blade, branching and forming a strong twining tendril.

They are funnel-shaped, 3 inches deep and 4 1/2 inches across the mouth; the leaves leathery and 4 to 9 inches long.

The branches are covered with rusty brown scales, and the somewhat leathery leaves are dark green above and silvery-white beneath.

Its leaves are very stiff and leathery, and distinguish the variety by their more or less obovate outline.

The plant is evergreen, and forms masses of firm leathery leaves from which issue dainty feathery plumes of creamywhite flowers late in spring.

It is of somewhat straggling habit, with loosely-clustered pale green leathery leaves and handsome greenish flowers three-quarters of an inch across, clustered together at the tips of the shoots as in Ivy and Aralia.

The seeds are leathery and nut-like, not winged as in the Elm.

The longer points, sharper teeth, more numerous nerves and leathery texture, together with the fact that they hang longer, may enable any one to tell the leaf of the Japan Zelkowa from that of the better-known Z. crenata.

They are widely spaced, leathery and sharp pointed, with rolled over edges.

The cracks may grow into wide cracks with a tough, leathery appearance, and bacteria enters the cracks, ruining the tomatoes.

Lichenification-Thickening of the outer layer of skin cells caused by prolonged scratching or rubbing and resulting in a leathery or bark-like appearance of the skin.

The body is often said to be "lizard-like" and sometimes "leathery" with a row of quills or spiked fur down the spine.

The skin of the beast was dark and somewhat leathery, and the large canine fangs appeared to protrude from the mouth.

Sun exposure, also called photo aging, causes freckles, age spots and leathery skin.

Not only is skin cancer an issue, but the sun dries out the skin and too much exposure can give it a wrinkly, leathery appearance.

Some nationalities experience issues with dry or leathery skin, but these fortunately also can be combated with proper products.

Those same rays are the ones that cause skin cancer and premature aging, often seen in the form of leathery, sagging and wrinkly skin.

Skin can eventually turn tough and leathery from the constant irritation and scratching.

This results in wrinkles, sagging, and dry, leathery skin.

They adjusted around her like fingers, leathery and long enough to wrap around her body.

The leathery coils of its shiny body lay in a heap, stacked at least three tiers high.

The mushroom is a semi-deliquescent fungus which rapidly falls into putridity in decay, whilst the champignon dries up into a leathery substance in the sun, but speedily revives and takes its original form again after the first shower.

A separate family, Notoryctidae, is represented by the marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops), of the deserts of south Central Australia, a silky, golden-haired, burrowing creature, with a curious leathery muzzle, and a short, naked stumpy tail.

The " leathery turtle," which is herbivorous, and yields abundance of oil, has been caught at sea off the Illawarra coast so large as 9 ft.

The jointed leaves are fleshy or leathery; the flowers are generally large with a well-developed lip.

The first, to be seen on the coast and the western slopes of the highlands, is characterized by a number of evergreen shrubs with small leathery leaves, and by quickly-flowering spring plants.

Rigid leathery leaves are fixed by means of glue, or, if they present too smooth a surface, by stitching at their edges.

Some species, especially those of a thick or leathery texture, contract so much in drying that without strong pressure the edges of the paper become puckered.

This is exactly the structure of the plum or apricot, and differs from that of the almond, which is identical in the first instance, only in the circumstance that the fleshy part of the latter eventually becomes dry and leathery and clacks open along a line called the suture.

The eggs, which are 16 in number, are deposited in a leathery capsule fixed by a gum-like substance to the abdomen of the female, and thus carried about till the young are ready to escape, when the capsule becomes softened by the emission of a fluid substance.

They have a shining, marble-grey and brown, thick, leathery outer coat, within which is a thin dark-coloured brittle coat.

The leaves are vertical, and arranged in two rows as in the garden flag; they are very thick, stiff and leathery, dark green above, paler below, with the margin and nerve reddishorange.

The stem is bushy, with numerous and very leafy branches; the leaves are alternate, leathery in texture, elliptical, obtusely serrated, strongly veined and placed on short channelled footstalks.

On the lower slopes of the mountains and on all the parts left uncultivated the prevailing form of vegetation consists of a dense growth of shrubs with thick leathery leaves, such as are known to the French as maquis, to the Italians as macchic, and to the Spaniards as monte bajo,2 shrubs which, however much they resemble each other in external appearance, belong botanically to a great variety of families.

Being exposed to the sun can make you old before your time - making your skin look saggy, wrinkly and leathery !

A. virginicum is the Heart Snakeroot, its leaves thick and leathery, with the upper surface mottled with white.