wool

noun

• 1the fine, soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep, goat, or similar animal, especially when shorn and prepared for use in making cloth or yarn: Harris tweed is made from pure new wool
• yarn or textile fibre made from wool: carpets made of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon [count noun]:a sampler in coloured wools [as modifier]:her blue wool suit

• 2a thing resembling wool, in particular:
• [with modifier] the soft underfur or down of some other mammals:beaver wool
• [with modifier] a metal or mineral made into a mass of fine fibres:lead wool