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Crossword-Solution: TEASEL 6 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Teasel n. 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.
Teasel n. A bur of this plant.
Teasel n. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in
dressing cloth.
Teasel v. t. To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels,
or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

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Word Anagrams
TEASEL anagram ATELES, ATLEES, ELATES, SEALET, STELAE, TALESE, TEASLE

We have 52 clues for the answer “TEASEL”

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Prickly plant on whose nectar monarch butterflies feed 1 answer
DIPSACUS 1 answer
Flowering thistlelike plant 1 answer
Fuller's thistle 1 answer
Nap raiser 1 answer
Nap-raising plant 1 answer
PLANT used to raise nap on cloth 1 answer
Pincushion flower, e.g. 1 answer
Plant used in wool manufacture 1 answer
Plant with prickly flower head 1 answer
Plant with prickly flower heads. 1 answer
Plant with spiny purple flower heads 1 answer
Prickly invasive plant 1 answer
Flowering plant with prickly leaves 1 answer
Prickly plant that attracts goldfinches 1 answer
Prickly wild plant 1 answer
Prickly-leafed Plant 1 answer
Produce a napped surface 1 answer
Raise a nap on 1 answer
Raise a nap on cloth 1 answer
Raise nap on cloth 1 answer
Spiny-flowered plant 1 answer
Tall prickly plant 1 answer
Tool for raising the nap 1 answer
plant with prickly leaves and flowers 1 answer
Carding thistle. 1 answer
Biennial plant with hooked burrs. 1 answer
Plant with prickly leaves 2 answers
Prickly-leaved plant 2 answers
Prickly herb 2 answers
Prickly flower 2 answers
NAP, to raise 2 answers
RAISE nap 2 answers
Bristly plant 2 answers
Raise a nap 2 answers
NORTH African herbaceous plant 4 answers
thistle-like plant 5 answers
Prickly heat 6 answers
SPINY plant 8 answers
BRISTLY SHRUBS 10 answers
A THISTLELIKE FLOWER HEAD WITH EDIBLE FLESHY LEAVES AND HEART 10 answers
Arrow-shaped Plant with leaves 10 answers
BIENNIAL plant 11 answers
NORTH African plant 12 answers
AFRICAN herbaceous plant 13 answers
Prickly Plant 13 answers
ASIAN herbaceous plant 18 answers
BURR ___ 18 answers
BRITISH herbaceous plant 23 answers
African plant 31 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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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.
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1999
This quality is the alternate position of [644] the leaves, which has been replaced in the teasel family by a grouping in pairs.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo DeVries 2005
The twisted teasels lose their decussation, but in doing so the leaves are not left in a disorderly dispersion, but a distinct new arrangement takes its place, which is to be assumed as the normal one for the ancestors of the teasel family.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo DeVries 2005
Before doing so, it may be as well to state that the case of the teasel is not an isolated one, and that the same conclusions are supported by the valerian, and a large number of other examples.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo DeVries 2005
They are narrower than those of the teasel, but this depends, as we have seen for the "one-leaved" ascidium, on the shape of the original leaf.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo DeVries 2005
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 38 times in crossword archives (1951–2020).