wood wool

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1. uncountableFine shavings or fibers of wood, used as a stuffing, insulating or packing material, as a medical dressing, or combined with glue or cement to provide bulk to a building material.

   The only thing you can't make with wood wool is a head.

   2016, Divya Anantharaman, Katie Innamorato, Stuffed Animals: A Modern Guide to Taxidermy, →ISBN, page 45

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   Wood wool has been widely used as a space filler for packaging glassware, pottery, ceramics, etc.

   1990, Frank A. Paine, The Packaging User’s Handbook, →ISBN, page 576

   Wood wool panels are also manufactured as a composite panel with insulating materials (EPS insulating panels, polyurethane insulating panels, mineral wool insulating panels).

   2017, IBO Österreichisches Institut für Baubiologie und -ökologie, Details for Passive Houses: Renovation:, →ISBN

   Synonyms: excelsior