fuller's teasel

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Related to fuller's teasel: Dipsacus sativus, Dipsacus sylvestris, wild teasel

fuller's teasel

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

fuller's teasel

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

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

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

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

A wire brush does not come close to achieving the same subtle effect and even today traditional cloth-makers swear by the fuller's teasel.

Humble teasel was crucial to cloth trade; The rarely-seen tall spiky teasel plant was once grown in abundance in the Midlands. Chris Upton looks at how they were used in the wool and cloth trades in the region

Best of the Bunch Teasels WITH Huddersfield's remarkable history in the textile industry, the common or Fuller's teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) would seem to have been an excellent plant to have as an emblem, alongside the rams on the town's Coat of Arms.

Notebook

Although rarely seen today, wild teasel's close relative Fuller's teasel (Dipsacus sativus) had considerable economic importance during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Onondaga County area of central New York (see Mary Long, Conservationist, April/May 1974 pp.