vegetable leather noun3 •vegetable-tanned leather. Leather (from animal hides) cured with vegetable tannins. •A type of synthetic leather made of cotton waste. •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 convertible — 1839 formsvegetable leathers