vegetable wool
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vegetable wool
First recorded in 1880–85
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And yet both Africa and America made cotton cloth from the vegetable wool long before we knew of it otherwise than as a traveller's wonder.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
This was the vegetable wool of the ancients, which many learned authorities have identified with the byssus, in bandages of cloth made from which the old Egyptians wrapped their mummies.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
This was because of the 'vested interests' in wool and silk, which combined to keep out the vegetable wool from general use.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
Grain, fruit and vegetable, wool, silk and cotton, gold, silver and iron, steam and electricity,—were not all, like the spark, within arm's reach of savage man?
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
Alexander the Great introduced the "vegetable wool" into Europe.
From The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Holland Thompson
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