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FLANNEL MULLEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flannel mullein mean? 

FLANNEL MULLEIN (noun)
  The noun FLANNEL MULLEIN 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 torchesplay

  Familiarity information: FLANNEL MULLEIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLANNEL MULLEIN (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 ("flannel 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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