Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
2.
having the color of soft brown leather.
Origin: 1870–75; < LL alūtācius, equiv. to L alūt(a) leather softened with alum + -ācius-acious(altered to -aceous); L alūta appears to be a ptp. (alū- + -ta, fem. of -tus) akin to alū- in alūmenalum1
[al-yuh-tey-shuh
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