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mullein
/ˈmʌlɪn/
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What does mullein mean?
noun
- Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.
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/ˈmʌlɪn/
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Peter remembered that he had seen Mrs. Bob running along the ground before she flew up to the old mullein stalk.
Of mullein flowers about five thousand pounds used to be imported, chiefly from Germany.
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I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumble-bee.
Lastly, the Solanaceae: Verbascum thapsus, or shepherd's club; V. sinuatum, or scollop-leaved mullein.
I am not much attracted by the gaunt, flavorless mullein, and the wiry thistle of upland country pastures, where the grass is always gray, as if the world were already weary and sick of life.