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vegetable wool
noun
- wool5
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vegetable wool1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
It would be a triumph of agriculture, certainly, to raise vegetable wool in regions not fitted for real sheep.
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It is composed almost entirely of vegetable wool from the poplar and oak, and is lined with a few small white feathers.
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Alexander the Great introduced the "vegetable wool" into Europe.
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The inside does not present much variation, but is lined with feathers, horse-hairs and vegetable wool, as many of our own are.
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