mungo
noun
a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The natives state that the Mangouste resorts on such occasions to the Ophiorhiza mungos, whose root is reputed a specific for serpents' bites.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse