| 单词 | vegetable leather |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable leather American leather, a kind of oil-cloth; ‘an English name for what in the U.S. is called enameled cloth’ (Funk); vegetable leather, a material consisting of a layer or layers of linen on which india-rubber is spread. For Morocco, patent, Russia, Spanish, Turkey, white leather, see the prefixed words.extracted from leathern.vegetable leather vegetable leather n. (a) a synthetic leather made from plants or using plant products; †(b) a tropical euphorbia, Euphorbia punicea, with red flowers and leathery leaves (obsolete rare). ΚΠ 1849 H. Barnard Rep. & Docs. Public Schools Rhode Island 1848 377 We have seen beautiful specimens of maps printed on various specimens of a new fabric, recently invented, and called vegetable leather,..which will admit of the roughest use. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1206/1 Vegetable Leather, Euphorbia punicea. 1925 Pop. Mech. June 961/1 A vegetable leather which is said to compare favourably with the animal product..is being produced from the ‘mitsumata’ plant. 2010 M. Pasternak Best of Friends xvi. 300 Made from socially and environmentally responsible rubberized canvas known as vegetable leather..the hard-to-find tote was modeled after a gardener's bag. < as lemmas |
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