fuller's teasel

fuller's teasel

n.

See teasel.

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fuller's teasel

n

1. (Plants) a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth

2. (Plants) a similar and related plant, Dipsacus sativum

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fuller'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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