Definition of Great mullein

1. Noun. Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Mullein

great horsetail
great horsetails
great house
great hundred
great hundreds
great icosihemidodecahedron
great knapweed
great lakes region
great laurel
great lobelia
great longitudinal fissure
great maple
great millet
great minds
great minds think alike
great mullein (current term)
great northern diver
great northern divers
great northern loon
great northern loons
great northern prawn
great northern prawns
great oaks from little acorns grow
great octave
great octaves
great pancreatic artery
great plague
great plains paintbrush
great power
great powers

Literary usage of Great mullein

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

1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"The flower, whose two long stamens and pistil protrude as from the great mullein's blossom, and whose filaments are tufted with violet wool ..."

2. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"great mullein. N. 0. Scrophulariaceae. Tincture of fresh plant at the commencement of ... The thick woolly leaves of V. thapsus, the great mullein, ..."

3. The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note-book of Raoul Dubois by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1876)
"The great mullein sprouts handsomely in April, with his fine large cottony leaves, and it is a pleasure to meet with him again when we remember his summer ..."

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