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wool

  • noun
  • wo͝ol

The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

Other meanings

  1. A cloth or yarn made from such hair.

  2. Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.

A kind of

  • fabric

Word history

From Old English "wull".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “wool” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.