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MULLEIN
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers
Synonyms:
flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mullein" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mullein"):
moth mullein; Verbascum blattaria (European mullein with smooth leaves and large yellow or purplish flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America)
Verbascum lychnitis; white mullein (densely hairy Eurasian herb with racemose white flowers; naturalized in North America)
purple mullein; Verbascum phoeniceum (Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers)
Aaron's rod; common mullein; flannel mullein; great mullein; torch; Verbascum thapsus; woolly mullein (tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches)
Holonyms ("mullein" is a member of...):
genus Verbascum; Verbascum (genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves)
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