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What (who) is teasel - definition

SPECIES OF PLANT

Dipsacus sylvestris; Fuller's teazle; Fuller's Teasel; Wild Teasel; Fuller's teasel; Wild teasel; Common teasel; Common Teasel; Dipsacus vulgaris; Dipsacus sinuatus; Dipsacus silvester; Dipsacus purpurascens; Dipsacus palustris; Dipsacus orsini; Dipsacus morisonii; Dipsacus mirabilis; Dipsacus meyeri; Dipsacus horridus; Dipsacus divaricatus; Dipsacus connatofolius; Dipsacus carminatorius; Dipsacus botterii; Dipsacus arcimusci

Teasel

·noun A bur of this plant.

II. Teasel ·noun Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

III. Teasel ·vt To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

IV. Teasel ·noun A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

teasel

(also teazle or teazel)

¦ noun

1. a tall prickly plant with spiny purple flower heads. [Genus Dipsacus: several species.]

2. a dried head from a teasel, or a similar man-made device, used to raise a nap on woven cloth.

¦ verb chiefly archaic raise a nap on (cloth) with a teasel.

Derivatives

teaseling noun

Origin

OE tsl, tsel, of W. Gmc origin; related to tease.

Teaseler

·noun One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.

Wikipedia

Dipsacus fullonum

Dipsacus fullonum, syn. Dipsacus sylvestris, is a species of flowering plant known by the common names wild teasel or fuller's teasel, although the latter name is usually applied to the cultivated variety D. fullonum var. sativus. It is native to Eurasia and North Africa, but it is known in the Americas, southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand as an introduced species.

It is a herbaceous biennial plant (rarely a short-lived perennial plant) growing to 1–2.5 metres (3.3–8.2 ft) tall. The inflorescence is a cylindrical array of lavender flowers which dries to a cone of spine-tipped hard bracts. It may be 10 centimeters long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipsacus fullonum