teazel

[ tee-zuhl ]

noun

, tea·zeled, tea·zel·ing or (especially British) tea·zelled, tea·zel·ling.

1. a variant of teasel.

Example Sentences

Genuine broadcloth can only be dressed by a teazel of Nature’s own growing; but shoddy, far less delicate, submits to the metal.

From Project Gutenberg

The raising of caraway, coriander, and teazel is almost peculiar to this county.

From Project Gutenberg

In the American button-bush the heads are globular, in some species of teazel elliptical, while in scabious and in composite plants, as sunflower, dandelion, thistle, centaury and marigold, they are somewhat hemispherical, with a flattened, slightly hollowed, or convex disk.

From Project Gutenberg

Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The blossoms form cones, which when in full bloom, are much the size and shape of a large English teazel, and are of a greenish yellow.

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