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GREAT MULLEIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
Synonyms:
Aaron's rod; common mullein; flannel mullein; great mullein; torch; Verbascum thapsus; woolly mullein
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("great mullein" is a kind of...):
flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant (any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers)
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