Dictionary entry

Teazle

Pronunciation: /'ti:zl/

Pronunciation

/'ti:zl/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဆပ်သွားဖူးကဲ့သို့ ချည်ရှင်းရာတွင်သုံးရသော၊ ဆူးထူသော ပန်းပွင့်အုံပွင့်သည့် ပင်ပျော့။

Definition

teasel (also teazel, teazle ) /'ti:zl/ n ဆပ္သြားဖူးကဲ့သို႔ ခ်ည္ရွင္း ရာတြင္သံုးရေသာ၊ ဆူးထူေသာ ပန္းပြင့္အံုပြင့္သည့္ ပင္ေပ်ာ့။

Examples

  1. ‘The wave speed calculated for teasel disagrees
  2. by a large factor
  3. with the apparent rate of spread of the species in North America.’
  4. ‘The plants have grabbed a hold forming rafts of rushes and weeds; and teasels and fireweed march up inhospitable slopes.’
  5. ‘The tortures that follow include strapping what Thomas calls a ‘teazle’ into William's mouth as a gag to choke him (presumably the large prickly seed-heads of teasels
  6. Dipsacus fulonnum
  7. that were used in the fulling of cloth).’
  8. ‘All around the station car park I found lots of teasel flowers and this species also has a textile connection.’
  9. ‘Suppose that some small fraction of teasel seeds land in water
  10. and that when they do they are dispersed according to a Laplace distribution with some larger mean distance.’
  11. ‘To encourage them
  12. provide bird-friendly seed-bearers such as teasels
  13. honesty and sunflowers
  14. and those that provide autumn berries
  15. including pyracanthas and hawthorns.’
  16. ‘The land was quiet and pleasant
  17. with teasels
  18. cowslips
  19. bluebells
  20. and dark soil ridged for spuds or glowing with oil seed rape.’
  21. ‘In the case of teasel
  22. field biologists were already aware of the discrepancy between the short distances traveled by most seeds
  23. and the speed with which the plant spread after its introduction to North America.’
  24. ‘Under these conditions
  25. a teasel invasion wave would move each year roughly twice the mean seed dispersal distance.’
  26. ‘The writer had seen a copy of the Mark Lane Express Almanac
  27. in which an article pointed out that ‘tobacco and mustard were grown in the Vale of York
  28. and teasels were also pretty extensively cultivated.’’
  29. ‘Another possible explanation is that multiple introductions of teasel have contributed to its distribution in North America.’
  30. ‘At Embsay I found harebell
  31. knapweed
  32. honeysuckle
  33. meadowsweet
  34. bittersweet and of course lots of teasel.’
  35. ‘The fruit of the teasel consists of seeds protected by hook-like structures.’
  36. ‘Finally
  37. a nap is raised on the surface of the chechia by means of an implement made from the elongated
  38. dried flower-head of a type of teasel (genus Dipsacus) grown and harvested near the village of el-'Aliya near Bizerte on the north coast.’
  39. ‘The teasel is another plant which had a vital use before the industrial revolution.’
  40. ‘Vigorous self-seeders such as teasels and some annual poppies
  41. and plants that tend to be too tall and lanky to stand the winter gales such as certain Achillea cultivars
  42. are ideal contenders.’
  43. ‘Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels
  44. milk thistles
  45. huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches.’
  46. ‘We present illustrative examples
  47. using published data on two plants: teasel and Calathea ovandensis.’
  48. ‘A large variety of shrubs have already been planted in the garden including thistles
  49. dogrose
  50. wild primulas and teasel.’
  51. ‘Nearby
  52. the rough grass and scrub contain large stands of teasels and thistles
  53. which provide seeds for finches - goldfinch
  54. chaffinch
  55. bullfinch
  56. brambling and siskin are frequent winter visitors.’