| 单词 | teasle |
| 释义 | teasle (once / 738707 pages) n WORD FAMILY teasle: teasles USAGE EXAMPLESTo tease wool, or to card it, was to use the teasle, or a card, to prepare it for spinning. Milton, John, Minor Poems by Milton(2010) The steep ground was covered with the feathery sprays of asters, seen through a velvety host of gray teasles which grew to greater height. Dougall, Lily, The Mormon Prophet(2010) Miles away from home, in a hollow among teasles beneath a ruin, he had found the commas. Woolf, Virginia, Jacob's Room(2010) n any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts Syn|Hypo|Hyper teasel, teazel Dipsacus fullonum, common teasel teasel with lilac flowers native to Old World but naturalized in North America; dried flower heads used to raise a nap on woolen cloth Dipsacus sativus, fuller's teaselsimilar to the common teasel and similarly used; widespread in Europe and North Africa and western Asia; naturalized in United States Dipsacus sylvestris, wild teaselEuropean teasel with white to pink flowers; naturalized in United States herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests |
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