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Origin: L, a flock of wool.
1. <ornithology, zoology> The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
2. <botany> A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
(01 Mar 1998)
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