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vegetable leather

vegetable leather noun: a type of synthetic leather made of cotton waste.

Noun

vegetable leather (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable leathers)

  1. A type of synthetic leather made of cotton waste.
  2. Linen cloth coated with india rubber.
    • Vegetable leather […]is now produced 50 yards in length , and 11 yards wide , every portion being of equal and of any required thickness , and the smallest portion is convertible1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines
  3. vegetable-tanned leather. Leather (from animal hides) cured with vegetable tannins.

Forms of vegetable leather

pluralvegetable leathers

Questions about vegetable leather

What does vegetable leather mean?
Vegetable leather means a type of synthetic leather made of cotton waste.
What part of speech is vegetable leather?
Vegetable leather is a noun.
What is the plural of vegetable leather?
The plural of vegetable leather is vegetable leathers.

Words near vegetable leather in the dictionary

  1. vegetable juice
  2. vegetable juices
  3. vegetable kingdom
  4. vegetable lamb
  5. vegetable lambs
  6. vegetable leather
  7. vegetable leathers
  8. vegetable marrow
  9. vegetable marrows
  10. vegetable meat
  11. vegetable mercury

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