Home › Words › V › vegetalinevegetalinevegetaline means A substitute for ivory, etc., made by treating woody fibre with sulphuric acid, mixing with various ingredients, and pressing into any required form.EtymologyFrom vegetal + -ine.nounA substitute for ivory, etc., made by treating woody fibre with sulphuric acid, mixing with various ingredients, and pressing into any required form.e.g.“It is called vegetaline, and it is nothing else than the oil extracted from copra (dried cocoanut), refined, and with all smell and taste neutralised by a patented process.” — 1901 November 22, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 19, page 587:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).