the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
fabrics and garments of such wool.
yarn made of such wool.
any of various substances used commercially as substitutes for the wool of sheep or other animals.
any of certain vegetable fibers, as cotton or flax, used as wool, especially after preparation by special process (vegetable wool ).
any finely fibrous or filamentous matter suggestive of the wool of sheep: glass wool; steel wool.
any coating of short, fine hairs or hairlike processes, as on a caterpillar or a plant; pubescence.
Informal. the human hair, especially when short, thick, and crisp.
Idioms for wool
all wool and a yard wide, genuine; excellent; sincere: He was a real friend, all wool and a yard wide.
dyed in the wool, inveterate; confirmed: a dyed in the wool sinner.
pull the wool over someone's eyes, to deceive or delude someone: The boy thought that by hiding the broken dish he could pull the wool over his mother's eyes.
Origin of wool
before 900; Middle English wolle,Old English wull(e), cognate with Dutch wol,German Wolle,Old Norse ull,Gothic wulla; akin to Latin lāna,Sanskrit ūrṇā,Welsh gwlân wool, Latin vellus fleece, Greek oúlos woolly
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