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fuller's teasel

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fuller's teasel
n.
A prickly Eurasian plant (Dipsacus fullonum) having bristly flower heads used by fullers to raise the nap on cloth.
fuller's teasel
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a similar and related plant, Dipsacus sativum
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Noun1.fuller's teaselfuller's teasel - similar to the common teasel and similarly used; widespread in Europe and North Africa and western Asia; naturalized in United States
Dipsacus sativus
teasel, teasle, teazel - any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts


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