AARON'S ROD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aaron's rod mean? 

• AARON'S ROD (noun)
  The noun AARON'S ROD has 1 sense:

1. tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches

  Familiarity information: AARON'S ROD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AARON'S ROD (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aaron's rod; common mullein; flannel mullein; great mullein; torch; Verbascum thapsus; woolly mullein

Hypernyms ("Aaron's rod" 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)

 Context examples 

“And I will have Aaron's rod,” quoth Aylward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here, too, is part of Aaron's rod, and a lock of hair from Elisha the prophet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)