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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 flowers
Familiarity information: PURPLE MULLEIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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