1. wool(n = noun.artifact) woolen, woollen - a fabric made from the hair of sheep;
is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
2. wool(n = noun.substance) - fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving;
is a kind of animal fiber, animal fibre
has particulars: shetland wool, raw wool, alpaca, cashmere, fleece, shoddy, vicuna, virgin wool
3. wool(n = noun.animal) fleece - outer coat of especially sheep and yaks;
is a kind of coat, pelage
Derived forms adjective woolly3, adjective wooly3
1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. [1913 Webster]
" Wool consists essentially of keratin." [1913 Webster]
2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. [1913 Webster]
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog." [1913 Webster]
3. A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. [1913 Webster]
wool, n.
1 fine soft wavy hair from the fleece of sheep, goats, etc.
2 a yarn produced from this hair. b cloth or clothing made from it.
3 any of various wool-like substances (steel wool).
4 soft short under-fur or down.
5 colloq. a person's hair, esp. when short and curly.
Idiom:
pull the wool over a person's eyes deceive a person. wool-fat lanolin. wool-fell Brit. the skin of a sheep etc. with the fleece still on. wool-gathering absent-mindedness; dreamy inattention. wool-grower a breeder of sheep for wool. wool-oil suint. wool-pack
1 a fleecy cumulus cloud.
2 hist. a bale of wool. wool-skin = wool-fell. wool-sorters' disease anthrax. wool-stapler a person who grades wool.
Derivative:
wool-like adj.
Etymology:
OE wull f. Gmc
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
abb wool, cotton wool, glass wool, mineral wool, philosopher's wool, philosophers' wool, pull the wool over someone's eyes, raw wool, rock wool, shetland wool, steel wool, virgin wool, wire wool, wool fat, wool grass, wool grease, wool oil, wool stapler