caracul
[ kar-uh-kuh l ]
/ ˈkær ə kəl /
noun
Words nearby caracul
caracas,
carack,
caracol,
caracole,
caractacus,
caracul,
carafe,
caragana,
carageen,
caramanlis,
caramba
Definition for caracul (2 of 2)
Karakul
or car·a·cul
[ kar-uh-kuh l ]
/ ˈkær ə kəl /
noun (sometimes lowercase)
one of an Asian breed of sheep having curly fleece that is black in the young and brown or gray in the adult: raised especially for lambskins used in the fur industry.
Compare broadtail, Persian lamb.
(sometimes lowercase)
a Karakul lambskin.
Origin of Karakul
First recorded in 1850–55; after
Kara Kul lake on the Pamir plateau, Tajikistan, near where the sheep were bred
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British Dictionary definitions for caracul (1 of 2)
caracul
/ (ˈkærəˌkʌl) /
noun
Also called: Persian lamb
the black loosely curled fur obtained from the skins of newly born lambs of the karakul sheep
a variant spelling of karakul
British Dictionary definitions for caracul (2 of 2)
karakul
caracul
/ (ˈkærəkəl) /
noun
a breed of sheep of central Asia having coarse black, grey, or brown hair: the lambs have soft curled usually black hair
the fur prepared from these lambs
See also
Persian lamb
Word Origin for karakul
C19: from Russian, from the name of a region in Bukhara where the sheep originated