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PURPLE MULLEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple mullein mean? 

PURPLE MULLEIN (noun)
  The noun PURPLE MULLEIN has 1 sense:

1. Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PURPLE MULLEIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

purple mullein; Verbascum phoeniceum

Hypernyms ("purple 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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