leathery |
= coriaceous |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
weak |
|
texture |
|
Very pliable and unresilient. |
cartilaginous |
= cartilage-like |
texture |
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Firm, dense, tough, somewhat pliable, and resilient, like human cartilage. |
rigid |
= rigent, stiff |
texture |
|
Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
sclerocaulous |
= hard-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having hard, relatively dry, but essentially herbaceous main stems that contain a significant proportion of sclerotic tissue or fibers. |
horny |
= corneous |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
sarcocaulous |
= fleshy-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are sarcous (carnose, fleshy). |
soft |
|
texture |
|
Yielding under slight pressure. |
bony |
= osseous |
texture |
|
Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
resinous 2 |
|
texture |
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Having the consistency of resin. |
sarcous |
= carnose, fleshy |
texture |
|
Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
osseous |
= bony |
texture |
|
Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
filamentous |
|
texture |
|
Composed of filiform (thread-like) strands with no intervening tissue. |
siliceous |
|
texture |
epidermis, trichome |
Containing deposits of silica, thus hardened and abrasive. |
mucilaginous 2 |
= mucous; < glutinous |
texture |
|
Slimy. |
farinaceous 1 |
= mealy; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
|
Of minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. See also farinose. |
mucous 2 |
= mucilaginous; < glutinous |
texture |
|
Slimy. |
glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
|
Sticky or slimy. |
supple |
= flexible, pliable, pliant |
texture |
|
Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
gelatinous |
|
texture |
|
Jelly-like; soft, moist, continuously cohesive, texturally homogeneous, somewhat resilient, and easily cut. |
loose 2 |
|
texture |
|
Soft overall, discontinuously and only weakly cohesive. |
friable |
= brittle |
texture |
|
Dry, firm and easily broken. |
papery |
= chartaceous, papyraceous |
texture |
|
Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
mealy 1 |
= farinaceous; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
|
Of or bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. |
limp |
|
texture |
|
Lacking stiffness in in one or more dimensions, thus drooping or sagging where unsupported. |