wool fat

1. 1.

   a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics

   Synonymslanolinwool grease

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about wool fat

What does wool fat mean?

wool fat means "a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics".

What is another word for wool fat?

Close synonyms include lanolin, wool grease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wool fat a common word?

wool fat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.