(亦作teazle或teazel)
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- a tall prickly Eurasian plant with spiny purple flower heads川续断。
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- Genus Dipsacus, family Dipsacaceae: several species, including fuller's teasel.川续断属, 川续断科：数种, 包括起绒草。
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- a large, dried, spiny head from such a plant, or a device serving as a substitute for one of these, used in the textile industry to raise a nap on woven cloth起绒刺果; 起绒机。
with obj.［often as noun teaseling］
- chiefly archaic raise a nap on (cloth) with or as if with teasels〈主古〉使（织物）起绒, 给（织物）拉毛。
词源
Old English tǣsl, tǣsel, of West Germanic origin; related to TEASE.