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vegetan

vegetan noun: vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals.

Noun

vegetan

  1. Vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals.
    • Vegetan is a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but it is easily damaged by water without further treatment.
  2. A synthetic microfibre, intended to be used as a vegan substitute for leather.
    • Today, its shoes are made from 'vegetan' and chrome-free leather (chrome is usually used in the dyeing process) for the uppers,2006, "Eco hero: Galahad Clark", Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12, 2006

Origin of vegetan

Blend of vegetable + tan.

Questions about vegetan

What does vegetan mean?
Vegetan means vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals.
What part of speech is vegetan?
Vegetan is a noun.

Words near vegetan in the dictionary

  1. vegetalized
  2. vegetalizes
  3. vegetalizing
  4. vegetally
  5. vegetals
  6. vegetan
  7. vegetant
  8. vegetare
  9. vegetarian
  10. vegetarian burger
  11. vegetarian burgers

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