Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vegetan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: veg-e-tan
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals.

noun

A synthetic microfibre, intended to be used as a vegan substitute for leather.

Example Sentences

"Vegetan is a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but it is easily damaged by water without further treatment."
"Today, its shoes are made from 'vegetan' and chrome-free leather (chrome is usually used in the dyeing process) for the uppers,"

Etymology

Blend of vegetable + tan.

Questions

What does vegetan mean?: Vegetable-tanned leather, typically cow skin tanned using plant-derived tannins rather than chemicals.
Where does vegetan come from?: Blend of vegetable + tan.

How to pronounce vegetan

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