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sheepswool sponge

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sheepswool sponge

[sheeps-wool] .
–noun
wool sponge.

Origin:
1880–85

wool sponge

–noun
a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep.
Also called sheepswool sponge.


Origin:
1875–80, Americanism
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