Difference between Wool and Hair

What is the difference between Wool and Hair?

Wool as a noun is the hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants. while Hair as a noun is a pigmented keratinaceous growth that forms thin spires and grows out from a follicle on the human head, or the collection of them.

Wool

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep. Anything with a texture like that of wool.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Made of wool.

Hair

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A pigmented keratinaceous growth that forms thin spires and grows out from a follicle on the human head, or the collection of them.The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).A haircloth. - Geoffrey ChaucerAny very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

We hope you now know whether to use Wool or Hair in your sentence.

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