mullein

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a plant of the genus Verbascum, typically having woolly leaves and a tall spike of yellow flowers

   A single mullein rose above the dry pasture on its downy gray-green leaves.

From Middle English moleyne and Anglo-Norman moleine. The name may derive from a Celtic word for yellow, referring to the flowers, or from Latin mollis, 'soft,' referring to the plant's thick, woolly leaves, which also motivate names such as flannel leaf and velvet plant.

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