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FULLER'S TEASEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fuller's teasel mean?
• FULLER'S TEASEL (noun)
The noun FULLER'S TEASEL has 1 sense:
1. similar to the common teasel and similarly used; widespread in Europe and North Africa and western Asia; naturalized in United States
Familiarity information: FULLER'S TEASEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Similar to the common teasel and similarly used; widespread in Europe and North Africa and western Asia; naturalized in United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dipsacus sativus; fuller's teasel
Hypernyms ("fuller's teasel" is a kind of...):
teasel; teasle; teazel (any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts)
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