noun
Meaning 1
Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
teasel
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/ˈtiːzəl/
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noun
Meaning 2
The dried fruiting head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativa, used for teasing or carding cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
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verb
Meaning 4
To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 5
any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: teazel, teasle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: common teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativus, wild teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris
History
Etymology
From Middle English tasel, tesel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl, from Proto-West Germanic *taisilu.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лугачка (lugačka) — plant
- Catalan: cardó — plant
- Czech: štětka — plant
- Dutch: kaardenbol — plant
- Finnish: karstaohdake — plant
- French: cardère — plant
- German: Karde — plant
- Ancient Greek: δίψακος (dípsakos) — plant
- Ancient Greek: κνάφος (knáphos) — plant
- Irish: liost — plant
- Kazakh: қожакендір (qojakendır) — plant
- Macedonian: че́шленка (čéšlenka) — plant
- Middle English: tasel — plant
- Norman: tcheurdron à chorchi — plant
- Norman: piègne à chorchi — plant
- Old English: tǣsl — plant
- Polish: szczeć — plant
- Russian: ворся́нка (vorsjánka) — plant
- Sicilian: carduni — plant
- Welsh: cribau'r pannwr — plant
- Welsh: llysiau'r pannwr — plant
- Welsh: llysiau'r cribwr — plant
- Welsh: llysiau'r cribau — plant
- Welsh: teilai mawr — plant
- Catalan: cardet — flower head
- Middle English: tasel — flower head
- Welsh: cribau'r pannwr — flower head