CORIACEOUS, adjective [Latin, leather.]
1. Consisting of leather, or resembling leather; tough; as coriaceous concretions.
2. In botany, stiff, like leather or parchment; applied to a leaf, a calyx or capsule.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.