fuller's teasel
Britishnoun
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a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum , whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
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a similar and related plant, Dipsacus sativum
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D. Fullònum, L., the Fuller's Teasel, which has a shorter involucre, and stiff chaff to the heads, with hooked points, used for raising a nap upon woollen cloth; it has escaped from cultivation in some places.
From Project Gutenberg
Some variations useful to him have probably arisen suddenly, or by one step; many botanists, for instance, believe that the fuller's teasel, with its hooks, which can not be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of the wild Dipsacus; and this amount of change may have suddenly arisen in a seedling.
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