teazle
Americannoun
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They peered over anthills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
For Leafage, Flowers, or Seed Vessels.—The acanthus, oak, thistles, teazle, giant hemlock, cow-parsley, buttercup.
From Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship by Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard)
In the ditch the tall teazle lifts its prickly head.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
He had found a great teazle plant, whose leaves formed cups round the stem.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
The fuller's teazle, and woad for dyeing, also grew, and still grow, I learn from Dr. Williamson, though I have not found either, in the neighbourhood.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
The wadding, picked up bit by bit from the ground, is teazled by the bird’s claws and inserted, all fleecy, into the meshes of the canvas.
From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Where shall we find in the Penduline’s mattress aught to vie with the Epeira’s eiderdown, that teazled russet gossamer?
From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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