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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mullein  \Mul"lein\,  n.  [OE.  moleyn,  AS  molegn.]  (Bot.) 
  Any  plant  of  the  genus  {Verbascum}.  They  are  tall  herbs 
  having  coarse  leaves,  and  large  flowers  in  dense  spikes.  The 
  common  species,  with  densely  woolly  leaves,  is  {Verbascum 
  Thapsus}. 
 
  {Moth  mullein}.  See  under  {Moth}. 
 
  {Mullein  foxglove},  an  American  herb  ({Seymeria  macrophylla}) 
  with  coarse  leaves  and  yellow  tubular  flowers  with  a 
  spreading  border. 
 
  {Petty  mullein},  the  cowslip.  --Dr.  Prior. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mullein 
  n  :  any  of  various  plants  of  the  genus  Verbascum  having  large 
  usually  woolly  leaves  and  terminal  spikes  of  yellow  or 
  white  or  purplish  flowers  [syn:  {flannel  leaf},  {velvet 
  plant}] 




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