alutaceous

American  

[al-yuh-tey-shuhs] / ˌæl yəˈteɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.

2. having the color of soft brown leather.

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Etymology

Origin of alutaceous

1870–75; < Late Latin alūtācius, equivalent to Latin alūt ( a ) leather softened with alum + -ācius -acious (altered to -aceous ); Latin alūta appears to be a past participle ( alū- + -ta, feminine of -tus ) akin to alū- in alūmen alum ¹

Example Sentences

Pileus a little fleshy, convex then plane or depressed, at length somewhat repand, rugose-striate, reddish-pallid or alutaceous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The pileus is subcoriaceous, convex, then expanded and depressed, glabrous, rugulose, white, changing in drying to pale alutaceous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The head is a light yellow in all specimens I found, not alutaceous as Schw. states, nor is the head obtuse.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The columella reduced to a thin alutaceous layer of granules of lime, forming the base of the plasmodiocarp.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

The color varies from whitish to alutaceous and yellowish.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha