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teasel
teasel is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. 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.
- 2noun
A bur of this plant.
- 3noun
Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
- 4transitive verb
To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.
- 5noun
any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts
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