teasel

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Definitions

noun

Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
The dried flower head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, used for teasing or carding cloth.
Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

verb

To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.

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Synonyms

teasle teazel tazel teazle blue sage scaleseed tickseed foamflower seseli huttonweed asclepias shepherd's rod sotol horsetail dandelion hawksbeard

Associated

nap banksia raising plant species native common local

Rhymes

decile cecil decal weesel breece hill diesel e sul increase il kiesel kriesel

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