mungo

An East Indian plant, Ophiorhiza Mungos, whose roots are a reputed cure for snake-bites. See mongoos.

Artificial short-staple wool formed by tearing to pieces and disintegrating old woolen fabrics, as old clothes.

A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif. those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, — a distinction often disregarded.

Low quality wool.