Word "TEASEL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts
Synonyms:
teasle, teazel

Crossword Clues for TEASEL

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A tall prickly plant with spiny purple flower heads (6)
Prickly-leaved herb
Chaff left in plant The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jun 2025
Plant with prickly flowers whose dried heads with their hooked bracts are used to raise a nap on cloth (6)
Prickly plant Eugene Sheffer 01 May 2025
Provoke learner with something prickly (6)
Assembling a steel plant (6)
Rag the student and get into a prickly situation (6)
Prickly plant The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 16 Dec 2024
Guy lost plant (6) Puzzler Cryptic 12 Oct 2024
Spiny plant New York Times 02 Oct 2024
Used to raise a nap
Herb with prickly flower heads - elates (anag) (6)
Herb with prickly leaves
Plant with prickly flowers; elates (anag.) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 30 Jul 2024
Prickly plant beginning to emerge in broken slate (6)
Prickly plant beginning to tickle one under canvas
Mock trainee at the plant (6)
Plant with prickly-flower head
Species of Dipsacus
Could be a steel plant (6)
Prickly-seeded weed
Strange tales about the East will disturb a nap (6)
Prickly dried flowerhead (6)
Prickly plant The Guardian Quick 23 Jan 2024
From an old word for "comb", a plant such as the fuller's species with prickly flower-heads traditionally dried for raising the nap on cloth (6)
Prickly plant least cultivated around rear of grove (6)
Drinks the Spanish made from this plant
Prickly plant Premier Sunday 15 Oct 2023
Guy with large plant The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Aug 2023
Tall plant with prickly seedheads The Times Concise 07 Jun 2023
*Plant with prickly leaves
Tall plant with brown prickly stems and conical seed heads The Guardian Quick 04 Oct 2022
Set ale up for the tall prickly plant with purple flower heads Irish Times Simplex 07 Oct 2021
Tall prickly plant The Times Concise 29 Sep 2021
Plant with prickly leaves Premier Sunday 04 Jul 2021
Tickle large prickly head
Oddly, they answer to Liberal leader
Earl Grey's sweetheart, from the heart of England, is a prickly sort Irish Times Crosaire 08 Aug 2020
Guy, 50, a prickly type The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Jun 2020
Plant with prickly leaves The Washington Post 25 Apr 2020
Plant with prickly leaves LA Times Daily 25 Apr 2020
Herb's tense, standby
Tall prickly plant The Times Concise 03 May 2019
Tell oddly about facility in plant 
Kid's beginning to lob prickly plant 
Oddly, they answer to Liberal leader
Prickly type in 23 down left Irish Times Crosaire 02 Oct 2018
Prickly-leaved plant Premier Sunday 22 Apr 2018
Prickly flowered plant The Sun Two Speed 02 Jan 2018
Stand beyond junction with plant The Sun Two Speed 02 Jan 2018
Prickly sort to make fun of novice Irish Times Crosaire 04 Dec 2017
Plant with spiny purple flower heads The Times Concise 29 Nov 2017
Plant left behind rag The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Jul 2017
Something prickly left under rag
Something prickly left under rag The Times Cryptic 20 Jun 2017
Pull gently on large plant
Quite a selection including prickly plant
Needle attached to large prickly plant The Times Cryptic 10 Feb 2016
Prickly invasive plant Newsday 29 Aug 2015
Plant stand supporting head of tulip
Plant stand put on front of terrace The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Mar 2015
Prickly plant that attracts goldfinches The Chronicle of Higher Education 20 Mar 2015
Prickly invasive plant
Prickly plant that attracts goldfinches
Thistlelike plant
Prickly plant
Prickly-leaved plant
Plant with prickly leaves
Thistlelike plant
Prickly-leaved plant
Thistlelike plant
Prickly plant
Prickly plant
Prickly-leaved plant
Flowering thistlelike plant
Prickly plant
Spiny-flowered plant
Spiny-flowered plant
Plant with prickly leaves
Pincushion flower, e.g.
Flowering plant with prickly leaves
Thistlelike plant
Thistlelike plant
Burr
Prickly plant
Raise a nap on cloth
Prickly plant
Produce a napped surface
Prickly plant
Prickly-leaved plant
Prickly-leafed plant
Prickly herb
Bristly plant
Nap-raising plant
Prickly flower
Raise a nap
Fuller's thistle
Plant used in wool manufacture
Nap raiser
Raise a nap on
Prickly herb
Raise nap on cloth
Raise a nap on cloth.
Plant with prickly flower heads.
Biennial plant with hooked burrs.
Raise a nap.
Thistlelike plant.
Prickly plant.
Carding thistle.
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