Audio English.net » Dictionary » W » Woodscrew ... Woozy

WOOLLY MULLEIN

Dictionary entry overview: What does woolly mullein mean?

• WOOLLY MULLEIN (noun)
The noun WOOLLY 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 torches

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

Dictionary entry details

• WOOLLY MULLEIN (noun)

Sense 1

woolly mullein ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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; Verbascum thapsus; woolly mullein; torch

Hypernyms ("woolly 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)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"Everything's eventual." (English proverb)

"Weeps the field because of no seeds." (Albanian proverb)

"Avoid what will require an apology." (Arabic proverb)

"No news is good news." (Dutch proverb)

Related FAQs:

» MULLEIN

Page delivered in 0.0237 seconds