a tall prickly Eurasian plant with spiny purple flower heads 川续断
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 ■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
verb
[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
语源
Old English tǣsl, tǣsel, of West Germanic origin; related to tease