Crossword-Solution: TEASELS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TEASELS | anagram | ALTESSE, ATELESS, EATLESS, SEALETS, TALESES, TEALESS, TEASLES |
We have 15 clues for the answer “TEASELS”
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| Comblike plants once used in textile factories | 1 answer |
| Nap-producing plants | 1 answer |
| Nap-raising plants | 1 answer |
| Napping devices | 1 answer |
| Old World prickly plants | 1 answer |
| Old World thistlelike plants | 1 answer |
| Plants used for raising nap | 1 answer |
| Prickly herbs | 1 answer |
| Prickly thistlelike flowers | 1 answer |
| Prickly thistlelike plants | 1 answer |
| Prickly-leaved plants | 1 answer |
| Raises a nap. | 1 answer |
| Thistlelike flowers | 1 answer |
| Thistlelike plants | 2 answers |
| Prickly plants | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TEASELS (5)
What has the future in store for it? Like many another in the ringing city, to use Rabelais' epithet, will it become a home for the fuller's teasels, a warehouse for scrap iron, a carrier's stable? Who knows? Stones have their destinies no less unexpected than ours.
Little stubby brier shoots, and clumps of russet bracken, and dead heather, ruffling like a brown dog's back, broke the dull surface of withered herbage, thistle stumps, teasels, rugged banks, and naked brush.
More than once I have had occasion to deal with the phenomenon of torsions, as exhibited by the teasels and some other plants.
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.
Obviously no other explanation is possible, than the supposition that the 5-13 spiral is still latent, though not displayed by the teasels.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1961–2014).