Definition of Flannel leaf

1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Flannel Leaf

flanker back
flankered
flankering
flankers
flanking
flanking region
flanking sequence
flanks
flannel
flannel-cake
flannel-mouth
flannel-mouthed
flannel bush
flannel cake
flannel cakes
flannel leaf (current term)
flannel mouth
flannel mullein
flannelbush
flanneled
flannelet
flannelets
flannelette
flannelettes
flannelgraph
flannelgraphs
flanneling
flannelled
flannelled fool
flannellike

Literary usage of Flannel leaf

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"Mullein; velvet dock; velvet-plant; flannel-leaf. Tall, erect, biennial weed, sometimes 7 feet in height; naturalized from ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"Here the gray And stately mullein snows its flannel-leaf, And lifts its saffron blossoms. Butterflies, Yellow as gold, are here amid the ooze, Disporting in ..."

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