leather flower

2 definitions found

leather flower - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Leather \Leath"er\ (l[e^][th]"[~e]r), n. [OE. lether, AS.
     le[eth]er; akin to D. leder, le[^e]r, G. leder, OHG. ledar,
     Icel. le[eth]r, Sw. l[aum]der, Dan. l[ae]der.]
     1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the
        hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for
        use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
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     2. The skin. [Ironical or Sportive]
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     Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made
           of, relating to, or like, leather.
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     Leather board, an imitation of sole leather, made of
        leather scraps, rags, paper, etc.
  
     Leather carp (Zool.), a variety of carp in which the scales
        are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp.
        
  
     Leather jacket. (Zool.)
        (a) A California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus).
        (b) A trigger fish (Balistes Carolinensis).
  
     Leather flower (Bot.), a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna)
        of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery
        sepals of a purplish color.
  
     Leather leaf (Bot.), a low shrub (Cassandra calyculata),
        growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen,
        coriaceous, scurfy leaves.
  
     Leather plant (Bot.), one or more New Zealand plants of the
        composite genus Celmisia, which have white or buff
        tomentose leaves.
  
     Leather turtle. (Zool.) See Leatherback.
  
     Vegetable leather.
        (a) An imitation of leather made of cotton waste.
        (b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber. --Ure.
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leather flower - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  leather flower
      n 1: scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having
           large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved
           sepals [syn: leather flower, vase-fine, vase vine,
           Clematis viorna]
      2: woody vine of the southern United States having purple or
         blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals [syn: leather   flower
         , Clematis versicolor]