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prairie wool 
See 1953 quote.
See also: buffalo wool (def. 2) nigger wool
- 1934 She loved . . . every blade of prairie wool . . . the sunflowers which covered the alkali flats. . . .
- 1953 The sheep crop the "prairie wool"--that excellent hard forage composed of spear-grass, bunch-grass and buffalo-grass.
- 1964 Solidly entrenched along road allowances, coulee banks and pastures of prairie wool they have multiplied. . . .
- 1934 She loved . . . every blade of prairie wool . . . the sunflowers which covered the alkali flats. . . .