It depends on where you live. In the UK, they are synonymous. "Wool" means wool yarn, and cotton wool means cotton yarn. In the US, wool is the fiber of a sheep and yarn is strands of fiber twisted (spun) into a long string that can be woven, knit, or crocheted.
Reindeer are better known for the usefulness of their hides than for their fleece.
Harvested wool is called fleece.
A fleece is what the wool is called when it is shorn from a sheep.
The hair of a sheep is referred to as wool. Fleece is the wool of a lamb.
Cotton is a botanical product: wool is spun from animal fleece.
Fleece is a word that rhymes with piece and refers to the wool of a sheep.
An alpaca's wool is called a fleece or fiber because it's finer than most wool. it's the 3rd most expensive fiber in the world.Another AnswerAlpaca wool is called Alpaca wool. Wool is a generic word used to describe fibre spun from fleece, regardless of the type of fleece-bearning animal that produces it. Alpaca, then, used as a descriptor, modifies the word wool and specifies the source of the fleece: thus -- Alpaca wool.
"Fleece" rhymes with "piece" and refers to the wool of a sheep.
Sheep provide the raw material for wool, which is fleece. People sheer the sheep, clean and card the fleece, then people spin the fleece into wool.
Virgin wool -- that is wool that has not been used before -- is spun from the fleece of the animal that grows the fleece.
Wool originates as fleece.
Wool is spun from fleece, harvested from the bodies of animals that grow the fleece.