Lexic.us

Definition of Mullein pink

1. Noun. An old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mullein Pink

Literary usage of Mullein pink

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

1. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1845)
"The seed- vessels of the Lobelia, mullein, pink, poppy, bloodroot ( Sanguinaria), are capsules. 2. SILIQUE (a pod). This is a long, narrow pericarp of two ..."

2. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"Corn Cockles, Lychnis githago, a tall, hairy plant with showy- crimson flowers resembling those of the mullein pink, is a bad weed in the wheat fields of ..."

3. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Д/ L. coronaria, MULLEIN-LYCHNIS or mullein pink. Cult, in gardens; the flower crimson and like that of ..."

4. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The mullein pink in bloom is an effect in gray and crimson. The gray, produced by an immense number of soft, white, woolly hairs clinging to stems and leaf ..."

5. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"The pinks were Jove's own flowers, and the Carthusian pink, china pink, clove pink, snow pink, plumed pink, mullein pink, sweet william, maltese cross, ..."

6. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1845)
"The seed- vessels of the Lobelia, mullein, pink, poppy, bloodroot ( Sanguinaria), are capsules. 2. SILIQUE (a pod). This is a long, narrow pericarp of two ..."

7. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"Corn Cockles, Lychnis githago, a tall, hairy plant with showy- crimson flowers resembling those of the mullein pink, is a bad weed in the wheat fields of ..."

8. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Д/ L. coronaria, MULLEIN-LYCHNIS or mullein pink. Cult, in gardens; the flower crimson and like that of ..."

9. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The mullein pink in bloom is an effect in gray and crimson. The gray, produced by an immense number of soft, white, woolly hairs clinging to stems and leaf ..."

10. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"The pinks were Jove's own flowers, and the Carthusian pink, china pink, clove pink, snow pink, plumed pink, mullein pink, sweet william, maltese cross, ..."

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