Underwool

Pronounced kiv-ee-ute, qiviut is an Inuit word for down or underwool. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can also buy finely-knit scarves, sweaters, mitts and toques made from qiviut, the soft underwool of muskox. ❋ Christopher (2007)

The fur is coarse, spiny, and slippery, and has no underwool. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Though much of the warm, dense, amazingly silky-soft underwool had been shed earlier in the summer, the next year's growth had already started, and was lighter in color than the fluffy, though coarser, wind-breaking overlayer, and gave it depth and highlights. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

Though their underwool was shed in summer, musk-oxen became stressed if the weather turned too warm. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

A sighting of the enormous, unpredictable rhinos, with two horns, the front one long and low-slung, and two coats of reddish fur, a soft downy underwool and an outer layer of long guard hair, always brought exclamations of wonder. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)

She also noticed headbands and belts, and across the shoulders of the girl, a cape with fascinating designs that were worked into a material which appeared to have been constructed out of strands of the underwool shed by the passing woolly beasts. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)

As chance provided, the white wool of mouflon which was shed naturally by the wild sheep in spring, the unbelievably soft earthy-brown downy wool of musk-ox, and the lighter red rhinoceros underwool were also gathered with great enthusiasm. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)

Amritsar carpets are made of _pashm_, the fine underwool of the Tibetan sheep, and _pashmína_ is also used as a material for _choghas_ ❋ James McCrone Douie (1894)