| 单词 | teazel |
| 释义 | teazel (once / 656629 pages) n WORD FAMILY teazel: teazels USAGE EXAMPLESGenuine broadcloth can only be dressed by a teazel of Nature’s own growing; but shoddy, far less delicate, submits to the metal. White, Walter, A Month in Yorkshire(2011) The raising of caraway, coriander, and teazel is almost peculiar to this county. Various, The New Gresham Encyclopedia—Volume...(2011) It was then teazelled; that is, a nap or rough surface was raised all over it by scratching it with weavers' teazels or thistles. Earle, Alice Morse, Home Life in Colonial Days(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, teasle 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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