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wood wool

wood wool noun: fine shavings or fibers of wood, used as a stuffing, insulating or packing material, as a medical dressing, or combined with glue or cement to provide bulk to a building material.

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Noun

wood wool (uncountable)

  1. Fine shavings or fibers of wood, used as a stuffing, insulating or packing material, as a medical dressing, or combined with glue or cement to provide bulk to a building material.
    • Wood wool has been widely used as a space filler for packaging glassware, pottery, ceramics, etc.1990, Frank A. Paine, The Packaging User’s Handbook, →ISBN, page 576
    • The only thing you can't make with wood wool is a head.2016, Divya Anantharaman, Katie Innamorato, Stuffed Animals: A Modern Guide to Taxidermy, →ISBN, page 45
    Synonyms:
    excelsior

wood wool meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Persian

wood wool in Tamil

மரநொய்

wood wool in Tagalog

Translations
sulake

wood wool in Persian

Translations
پوشال pušāl

Synonyms of wood wool

Forms of wood wool

alternative formwoodwool
alternative formwood-wool

Origin of wood wool

From wood + wool, due to the softness and appearance of the substance as reminiscent of wool. [Alt: Wood wool packing material]

Questions about wood wool

What does wood wool mean?
Wood wool means fine shavings or fibers of wood, used as a stuffing, insulating or packing material, as a medical dressing, or combined with glue or cement to provide bulk to a building material.
What is wood wool in Tamil?
Wood wool in Tamil is மரநொய். See Wood wool meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wood wool?
Wood wool is a noun.

Words near wood wool in the dictionary

  1. wood white
  2. wood whites
  3. wood wide web
  4. wood wide webs
  5. Wood Wood
  6. wood wool
  7. Wood's alloy
  8. Wood's glass
  9. Wood's lamp
  10. Wood's lamps
  11. Wood's light

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wood wool (page history and authors); wood wool (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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