Mullein

Quick meaning: Mullein is a noun meaning Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.

Meaning

Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.

Example Sentences

As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.

There be foure ſortes of Mulleyne, as [Pedanius] Dioſcorides writeth: wherof yͤ two firſt are white Mulleyne, and of them one is Male, and the other female: The third is blacke Mulleyne: The fourth is wilde Mulleyne. […] The white male Mulleyn (or rather Wolleyn) hath […] the whole top with his pleaſant yellow floures ſheweth like to a waxe Candell or taper cunningly wrought.

Word Forms

• mulleins
• mullen

Synonyms for mullein

Depending on context, synonyms include feltwort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mullen, torchweed, verbascum, feltwort, torchwort, vervain.

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