crustaceous |
= crusty |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
rigent |
= rigid, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
osseous |
= bony |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
pergamentaceous |
= parchment-like |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
crusty |
= crustaceous |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
chartaceous |
= papery, papyraceous |
texture |
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Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
friable |
= brittle |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
rigid |
= rigent, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
spongy |
|
texture |
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Soft, light, discontinuous but cohesive, and somewhat resilient. |
mealy 1 |
= farinaceous; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of or bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. |
resinous 2 |
|
texture |
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Having the consistency of resin. |
callose |
= callous |
texture |
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Hard-leathery; callose tissue usually is also thicker than comparable adjacent tissue. |
horny |
= corneous |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
flaccid |
|
texture |
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Limp, sometimes appearing withered or shrunken. See also tumid (swollen, turgid). |
callous |
= callose |
texture |
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Hard-leathery; callous tissue usually is also thicker than comparable adjacent tissue. |
watery |
|
texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
oily 2 |
= greasy, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
stiff |
= rigent, rigid |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
papery |
= chartaceous, papyraceous |
texture |
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Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
brittle |
= friable |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
oleaginous 2 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
medullose |
= pithy |
texture |
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Loose or spongy internally, denser and firmer externally. |
waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
fibrous |
|
texture |
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Having tough, woody or sclerotic strands distributed through a softer matrix. |
glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
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Sticky or slimy. |