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Lamb's Wool
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lamb's wool [′lamz ‚wu̇l]
(vertebrate zoology)
The first fleece taken from a sheep up to 7 months old, having natural tapered fiber tip and spinning qualities superior to those of wool taken from previously shorn sheep.
Lamb’s Wool 

wool obtained from five- to seven-month-old lambs. Lamb’s wool from coarse-wooled and semicoarse-wooled breeds has better technical properties and a higher yield of scoured wool than the wool of the adult sheep.
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