dipsacus sylvestris

1. 1.

   European teasel with white to pink flowers; naturalized in United States

   Synonymswild teasel

   Broaderteasel

Questions about dipsacus sylvestris

What does dipsacus sylvestris mean?

dipsacus sylvestris means "European teasel with white to pink flowers; naturalized in United States".

What is another word for dipsacus sylvestris?

Close synonyms include wild teasel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dipsacus sylvestris a common word?

dipsacus sylvestris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.