underwool

The underwool is to be the most dominant over the other two types of hair.

They keep em up there high and late, so the underwool grows thick.

Though their underwool was shed in summer, musk-oxen became stressed if the weather turned too warm.

The wind was strong, and its cold penetrated Silverhair's newly exposed underwool.

It has two layers: one a sort of underwool, the other made up of very long, hollow guard hairs.

Qiviut is the fine underwool of the muskox.

The annual shed of dense underwool requires vigorous brushing and bathing sessions in the Spring.

The underwool from the yearlings or the ewes was equally soft, but not as strong under duress.

They are of medium height, with a short to medium length coat backed by very thick underwool during the cold season.

In general, the Kuchi dog are large, often giant dogs, with a coat that can be short, medium, or long, backed by thick underwool.

Silverhair could feel the cold penetrate her guard hair and underwool, through her flesh to her bones.

Each May, the 100 musk oxen in the Palmer herd shed the underwool that has kept them warm during the long winter.

The underwool is thick, except in S. s. moupinensis, and the mane is largely absent.

The muskox has a two-layered coat, and qiviut refers specifically to the soft underwool beneath the longer outer wool.

These subspecies have sparse or absent underwool, with long manes and prominent bands on the snout and mouth.

In midsummer the thick layer of insulating underwool (kiviat) is shed, giving muskoxen a very shaggy appearance.

Over a fine, downy underwool, her guard hairs were long, coarse, and thick, springy and transparent-more like lengths of fishing line than human hair.

The Awn Fluff is found between the Underwool and Awn Hair.

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The material, Qiviut, spun from the winter underwool of domesticated musk oxen, is produced only in minuscule amounts and exclusively in Alaska.

The Tibetan antelope, or chiru, has been listed as endangered by the World Conservation Union because of commercial poaching for their underwool called shahtoosh.

There the underwool is woven into very light, warm shawls known as shahtoosh — a sort of super pashmina — that can sell for thousands of dollars apiece.

Qiviut (an Eskimo word meaning underwool and pronounced KEE-vee-oot) is easy to wash by hand, comfortable in warm as well as cold weather and nonirritating.

She was combing the black goat for the fine underwool that she would spin and take to a weaver to make into cloth, the silky fleecefell of Gont Island.

The wool of the Roslag sheep is a carpetwool type; with long, straight or curly guard hair and a thick cover of underwool, which can be up to 30 cm long.