teasel

Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, native to Eurasia and northern Africa, having prickly stems and flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.

The cultivated teasel D. sativus.

The bristly flower head of this plant, used to produce a napped surface on wool and other fabrics.

A wire device used to produce a napped surface.

To produce a napped surface on (a fabric).

See teazel.

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

A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (Dipsacus 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.

A bur of this plant.