Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
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Examples for "teasel"
Examples for "teasel"
1Maybe I'll give Whinney a good combing with the dry teasel later.
2Dipsacus pilosus, small teasel, -in the Short and Long Lith.
3Then there was the tall patches of browning cutleaf teasel, cutting edges in the sky.
4We walked slowly so that I could keep an eye out for late-blooming eglantine and teasel heads, chatting casually.
1A peacock butterfly now spread himself upon the teasle, fresh and newly emerged, as the blue and chocolate down on his wings testified.
2Miles away from home, in a hollow among teasles beneath a ruin, he had found the commas.
1If a 'prentice of mine cannot clean his platter, I know that I shall get little from him with carder and teazel.
2The cloth is run close to rapidly revolving "teazels" and also may be run through a napping machine.