teasle

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A form of teasel — Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.

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Meanings

nounteasle (plural teasles)

plural teasles

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of teasel.

    A peacock butterfly now spread himself upon the teasle, fresh and newly emerged, as the blue and chocolate down on his wings testified.

    1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 48
verbteasle (third-person singular simple present teasles, present participle teasling, simple past and past participle teasled)

present singular third person teasles · participle present teasling · participle past teasled · past teasled

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of teasel.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounany of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts

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Broader
herbherbaceous plant
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teasel

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

teasle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teasle

MLA

“teasle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teasle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “teasle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teasle.

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