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